Trending Projects for August 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.

pry-rails

Use Pry as your rails console

sidekiq

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.

jbuilder

Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL

celluloid

Celluloid enables people to build concurrent programs out of concurrent objects just as easily as they build sequential programs out of sequential objects

sinatra

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

aws-sdk

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

tilt

Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

active_utils

Common utils used by active_merchant, active_fulfillment, and active_shipping

capybara-webkit

Headless Webkit driver for Capybara

facter

You can prove anything with facts!

ffi

Ruby FFI library

rack-oauth2

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

kramdown

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

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.

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...

faraday

HTTP/REST API client library.

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.

simple_form

Forms made easy!

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.

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...

activerecord-import

A library for bulk inserting data using ActiveRecord.

json

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

chef

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

webmock

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

geocoder

Object geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (coordinates to street address), distance queries for ActiveRecord and Mongoid, result caching, and more. Designed for Rails but works with Sinatra and other Rack frameworks too.

httparty

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

omniauth

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

awesome_print

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

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...

rspec-expectations

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

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.

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.

activerecord-sqlserver-adapter

ActiveRecord SQL Server Adapter. SQL Server 2012 and upward.

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/

liquid

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

responders

A set of Rails responders to dry up your application

capybara

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

stomp

Ruby client for the Stomp messaging protocol.

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.

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.

mocha

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

pdfkit

Uses wkhtmltopdf to create PDFs using HTML

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 ...

gherkin

Gherkin parser