Trending Projects for February 26, 2012

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

wice_grid

A Rails grid plugin to create grids with sorting, pagination, and filters generated automatically based on column types. The contents of the cell are up for the developer, just like one does when rendering a collection via a simple table. WiceGrid automates implementation of filters, ordering, paginations, CSV export, and so on. Ruby blocks provide an elegant means for this.

less-rails

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

aws-sdk

The official AWS SDK for Ruby. Provides both resource oriented interfaces and API clients for AWS services.

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.

active_utils

Common utils used by active_merchant, active_fulfillment, and active_shipping

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

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.

activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails.

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.

money

A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

hiredis

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

parallel

Run any kind of code in parallel processes

exception_notification

Exception notification for Rails apps

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.

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.

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.

rubyzip

rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files

parallel_tests

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

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

pony

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

httparty

Makes http fun! Also, makes consuming restful web services dead easy.

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

faraday

HTTP/REST API client library.

awesome_print

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

recaptcha

Helpers for the reCAPTCHA API

pdf-reader

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

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

ffi

Ruby FFI library

resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both. Resque is heavily ...

redis

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

rspec-expectations

rspec-expectations provides a simple, readable API to express expected outcomes of a code example.

plist

Plist is a library to manipulate Property List files, also known as plists. It can parse plist files into native Ruby data structures as well as generating new plist files from your Ruby objects.

capybara

Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications. It simulates how a user would interact with a website

simple_form

Forms made easy!

archive-tar-minitar

'archive-tar-minitar' has been deprecated; just install 'minitar'. The minitar library is a pure-Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. This is release 0.12. This is likely the last revision before 1.0. minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) is based heavily on code originally written by Mauricio Julio Fernández Pradier for the rpa-base proj...

liquid

A secure, non-evaling end user template engine with aesthetic markup.

braintree

Resources and tools for developers to integrate Braintree's global payments platform.

bundler

Bundler manages an application's dependencies through its entire life, across many machines, systematically and repeatably

mongoid

Mongoid is an ODM (Object Document Mapper) Framework for MongoDB, written in Ruby.

newrelic_rpm

New Relic is a performance management system, developed by New Relic, Inc (http://www.newrelic.com). New Relic provides you with deep information about the performance of your web application as it runs in production. The New Relic Ruby agent is dual-purposed as a either a Gem or plugin, hosted on https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent/