Trending Projects for February 12, 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

i18n-js

Export i18n translations and use them on JavaScript.

bootstrap-sass

bootstrap-sass is a Sass-powered version of Bootstrap 3, ready to drop right into your Sass powered applications.

airbrake

Airbrake is an online tool that provides robust exception tracking in any of your Ruby applications. In doing so, it allows you to easily review errors, tie an error to an individual piece of code, and trace the cause back to recent changes. The Airbrake dashboard provides easy categorization, searching, and prioritization of exceptions so that when errors occur, your team can quickly determine...

capybara-webkit

Headless Webkit driver for Capybara

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

client_side_validations

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

hiredis

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

parallel

Run any kind of code in parallel processes

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.

json

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

Platform

Hopefully robust platform sensing

childprocess

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

exception_notification

Exception notification for Rails apps

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.

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

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.

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

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

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...

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.

faraday

HTTP/REST API client library.

carrierwave

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

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

pdf-reader

The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as possible to the PDF specification from Adobe

awesome_print

Great Ruby debugging companion: pretty print Ruby objects to visualize their structure. Supports custom object formatting via plugins

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.

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

recaptcha

Helpers for the reCAPTCHA API

redis

A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.