Trending Projects for June 17, 2012

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

sys-cpu

The sys-cpu library provides an interface for gathering information about your system's processor(s). Information includes speed, type, and load average.

rb-inotify

A Ruby wrapper for Linux inotify, using FFI

rack-protection

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

capybara-webkit

Headless Webkit driver for Capybara

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.

kramdown

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

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

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.

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.

sinatra

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

net-ssh

Net::SSH: a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol. It allows you to write programs that invoke and interact with processes on remote servers, via SSH2.

nokogiri

Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby. It provides a sensible, easy-to-understand API for reading, writing, modifying, and querying documents. It is fast and standards-compliant by relying on native parsers like libxml2, libgumbo, or xerces.

thor

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

delayed_job

Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background. It is a direct extraction from Shopify where the job table is responsible for a multitude of core tasks.

daemons

Daemons provides an easy way to wrap existing ruby scripts (for example a self-written server) to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands. You can also call blocks as daemons and control them from the parent or just daemonize the current process. Besides this basic functionality, daemons offers many advanced features like exce...

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.

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

activesupport

A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.

activerecord

Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes. Strong conventions for associations, validations, aggregations, migrations, and testing come baked-in.

actionmailer

Email on Rails. Compose, deliver, and test emails using the familiar controller/view pattern. First-class support for multipart email and attachments.

rails

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.