Trending Projects for December 09, 2012

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

dbf

A small fast library for reading dBase, xBase, Clipper and FoxPro database files.

sidekiq

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.

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 project.

handlebars_assets

A Railties Gem to compile hbs assets

slim

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

resque_spec

RSpec matchers for Resque

libv8

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

stripe

Stripe is the easiest way to accept payments online. See https://stripe.com for details.

dalli

High performance memcached client for Ruby

webmock

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

facter

You can prove anything with facts!

activeadmin

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails.

pusher

Wrapper for Pusher Channels REST api: : https://pusher.com/channels

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

mini_magick

Manipulate images with minimal use of memory via ImageMagick

stomp

Ruby client for the Stomp messaging protocol.

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.

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.

rspec-expectations

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

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

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.

tzinfo

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

composite_primary_keys

Composite key support for ActiveRecord

devise_invitable

It adds support for send invitations by email (it requires to be authenticated) and accept the invitation by setting a password.

activemodel

A toolkit for building modeling frameworks like Active Record. Rich support for attributes, callbacks, validations, serialization, internationalization, and testing.

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(:...

railties

Rails internals: application bootup, plugins, generators, and rake tasks.

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.

thinking-sphinx

An intelligent layer for ActiveRecord (via Rails and Sinatra) for the Sphinx full-text search tool.