Trending Projects for February 05, 2012

Discover libraries that are gaining popularity within the Ruby community. You can find an overview of how we calculate these in our documentation.

json-schema

Ruby JSON Schema Validator

twilio-ruby

The official library for communicating with the Twilio REST API, building TwiML, and generating Twilio JWT Capability Tokens

less-rails

The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails asset pipeline. Allows other gems to extend Less load path.

active_utils

Common utils used by active_merchant, active_fulfillment, and active_shipping

i18n-js

Export i18n translations and use them on JavaScript.

rack-protection

Protect against typical web attacks, works with all Rack apps, including Rails

capybara-webkit

Headless Webkit driver for Capybara

libv8

Distributes the V8 JavaScript engine in binary and source forms in order to support fast builds of The Ruby Racer

jasmine-core

Test your JavaScript without any framework dependencies, in any environment, and with a nice descriptive syntax. Jasmine for Ruby is deprecated. The direct replacment for the jasmine-core gem is the jasmine-core NPM package. If you are also using the jasmine gem, we recommend using the jasmine-browser-runner NPM package instead. It supports all the same scenarios as the jasmine gem gem plus We...

uglifier

Uglifier minifies JavaScript files by wrapping UglifyJS to be accessible in Ruby

guard

Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.

pry

Pry is a runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities. Pry aims to be more than an IRB replacement. It is an attempt to bring REPL driven programming to the Ruby language.

typhoeus

Like a modern code version of the mythical beast with 100 serpent heads, Typhoeus runs HTTP requests in parallel while cleanly encapsulating handling logic.

msgpack

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.

shoulda-matchers

Shoulda Matchers provides RSpec- and Minitest-compatible one-liners to test common Rails functionality that, if written by hand, would be much longer, more complex, and error-prone.

sass

Ruby Sass is deprecated! See https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass for details. Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.

activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails.

cmdparse

cmdparse provides classes for parsing (possibly nested) commands on the command line; command line options themselves are parsed using optparse.

client_side_validations

Client Side Validations made easy for your Rails 6.1 and 7.x applications

parallel

Run any kind of code in parallel processes

hiredis

Ruby wrapper for hiredis (protocol serialization/deserialization and blocking I/O)

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

json

This is a JSON implementation as a Ruby extension in C.

paper_trail

Track changes to your models, for auditing or versioning. See how a model looked at any stage in its lifecycle, revert it to any version, or restore it after it has been destroyed.

childprocess

This gem aims at being a simple and reliable solution for controlling external programs running in the background on any Ruby / OS combination.

chunky_png

This pure Ruby library can read and write PNG images without depending on an external image library, like RMagick. It tries to be memory efficient and reasonably fast. It supports reading and writing all PNG variants that are defined in the specification, with one limitation: only 8-bit color depth is supported. It supports all transparency, interlacing and filtering option...

rdoc

RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. RDoc includes the +rdoc+ and +ri+ tools for generating and displaying documentation from the command-line.

money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

exception_notification

Exception notification for Rails apps

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

mongo

A pure-Ruby driver for connecting to, querying, and manipulating MongoDB databases. Officially developed and supported by MongoDB, with love for the Ruby community.

parallel_tests

Run Test::Unit / RSpec / Cucumber / Spinach in parallel

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

fog

The Ruby cloud services library. Supports all major cloud providers including AWS, Rackspace, Linode, Blue Box, StormOnDemand, and many others. Full support for most AWS services including EC2, S3, CloudWatch, SimpleDB, ELB, and RDS.

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

addressable

Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library. It is flexible, offers heuristic parsing, and additionally provides extensive support for IRIs and URI templates.

sqlite3

Ruby library to interface with the SQLite3 database engine (http://www.sqlite.org). Precompiled binaries are available for common platforms for recent versions of Ruby.

mustache

Inspired by ctemplate, Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views. As ctemplates says, "It emphasizes separating logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this template language. Think of Mustache as a replacement for your views. Instead of views consisting of ERB or HAML with random helpers and arbitrary logic, your views are broken into two...

faraday

HTTP/REST API client library.

selenium-webdriver

Selenium implements the W3C WebDriver protocol to automate popular browsers. It aims to mimic the behaviour of a real user as it interacts with the application's HTML. It's primarily intended for web application testing, but any web-based task can automated.

carrierwave

Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them to a range of ORMs, store them on different backends.

pony

Send email in one command: Pony.mail(:to => 'someone@example.com', :body => 'hello')

pg

Pg is the Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL RDBMS. It works with PostgreSQL 9.3 and later.

yard

YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level definitions.

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

curb

Curb (probably CUrl-RuBy or something) provides Ruby-language bindings for the libcurl(3), a fully-featured client-side URL transfer library. cURL and libcurl live at http://curl.haxx.se/