Trending Projects for March 18, 2012

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

aws-sdk

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

bootstrap-sass

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

libv8

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

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.

rabl

General ruby templating with json, bson, xml and msgpack support

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.

rack-oauth2

OAuth 2.0 Server & Client Library. Both Bearer token type are supported.

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.

slim

Slim is a template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.

kramdown

kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

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...

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.

httparty

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

simple_form

Forms made easy!

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

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

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.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

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...

jasmine

Test your JavaScript without any framework dependencies, in any environment, and with a nice descriptive syntax. Jasmine for Ruby is deprecated. We recommend using the jasmine-browser-runner NPM package instead. It supports all the same scenarios as this gem plus Webpacker. See https://jasmine.github.io/setup/browser.html for setup instructions, and https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine-gem/blob/...

capybara

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

webmock

WebMock allows stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests.

acts_as_list

This "acts_as" extension provides the capabilities for sorting and reordering a number of objects in a list. The class that has this specified needs to have a "position" column defined as an integer on the mapped database table.

liquid

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

bundler

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

friendly_id

FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Active Record. It lets you create pretty URLs and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids.

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

ruby-graphviz

Ruby/Graphviz provides an interface to layout and generate images of directed graphs in a variety of formats (PostScript, PNG, etc.) using GraphViz.

stringex

Some [hopefully] useful extensions to Ruby's String class. Stringex is made up of three libraries: ActsAsUrl [permalink solution with better character translation], Unidecoder [Unicode to ASCII transliteration], and StringExtensions [miscellaneous helper methods for the String class].

mail

A really Ruby Mail handler.

warden

An authentication library compatible with all Rack-based frameworks

thor

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

tzinfo

TZInfo provides access to time zone data and allows times to be converted using time zone rules.

sequel

The Database Toolkit for Ruby

gherkin

Gherkin parser

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

rails_best_practices

a code metric tool for rails codes, written in Ruby.

ZenTest

ZenTest provides 4 different tools: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, and multiruby. zentest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. zentest only works with Ruby and Minitest or Test::Unit. There is enough evidence to show that this is still proving useful to users, so it stays. unit_diff is a command-line...

rubygems-update

A package (also known as a library) contains a set of functionality that can be invoked by a Ruby program, such as reading and parsing an XML file. We call these packages 'gems' and RubyGems is a tool to install, create, manage and load these packages in your Ruby environment. RubyGems is also a client for RubyGems.org, a public repository of Gems that allows you to publish a Gem that c...

passenger

A modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.

hoe

Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you manage, maintain, and release your project and includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility. Hoe ships with plug-ins for all your usual project tasks including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, deployment, and announcement. See class rdoc for help. Hint: `ri Hoe` or any of the plugins listed below. For e...