Trending Projects for August 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.

bindata

BinData is a declarative way to read and write binary file formats. This means the programmer specifies *what* the format of the binary data is, and BinData works out *how* to read and write data in this format. It is an easier ( and more readable ) alternative to ruby's #pack and #unpack methods.

The fastest JSON parser and object serializer.

pry-rails

Use Pry as your rails console

rabl

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

omniauth-oauth2

An abstract OAuth2 strategy for OmniAuth.

aws-sdk

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

sinatra

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

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.

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

rails-i18n

A set of common locale data and translations to internationalize and/or localize your Rails applications.

redis-store

Namespaced Rack::Session, Rack::Cache, I18n and cache Redis stores for Ruby web frameworks.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

childprocess

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

test-unit

test-unit (Test::Unit) is unit testing framework for Ruby, based on xUnit principles. These were originally designed by Kent Beck, creator of extreme programming software development methodology, for Smalltalk's SUnit. It allows writing tests, checking results and automated testing in Ruby.

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.

parallel_tests

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

faraday_middleware

Various middleware for Faraday

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.

fxruby

FXRuby is the Ruby binding to the FOX GUI toolkit.

json

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

webmock

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

mongoid

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

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

sequel

The Database Toolkit for Ruby

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

rack

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call.

mocha

Mocking and stubbing library with JMock/SchMock syntax, which allows mocking and stubbing of methods on real (non-mock) classes.

bundler

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

rake

Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. Tasks and dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax. Rake has the following features: * Rakefiles (rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?) * Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. * Rake supports ...

actionpack

Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.

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/

ruby_parser

ruby_parser (RP) is a ruby parser written in pure ruby (utilizing racc--which does by default use a C extension). It outputs s-expressions which can be manipulated and converted back to ruby via the ruby2ruby gem. As an example: def conditional1 arg1 return 1 if arg1 == 0 return 0 end becomes: s(:defn, :conditional1, s(:args, :arg1), s(:if, s(:call, s(:...

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...