Trending Projects for January 20, 2013

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

minitest-reporters

Death to haphazard monkey-patching! Extend Minitest through simple hooks.

hiera

A pluggable data store for hierarcical data

country_select

Provides a simple helper to get an HTML select list of countries. \ The list of countries comes from the ISO 3166 standard. \ While it is a relatively neutral source of country names, it will still offend some users.

grape

A Ruby framework for rapid API development with great conventions.

handlebars_assets

A Railties Gem to compile hbs assets

uniform_notifier

uniform notifier for rails logger, customized logger, javascript alert, javascript console and xmpp

libv8

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

rb-inotify

A Ruby wrapper for Linux inotify, using FFI

kramdown

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

jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

pdf-reader

The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as possible to the PDF specification from Adobe

railties

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

activemodel

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

rspec-rails

rspec-rails integrates the Rails testing helpers into RSpec.

sequel

The Database Toolkit for Ruby

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.

devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden

activeresource

REST on Rails. Wrap your RESTful web app with Ruby classes and work with them like Active Record models.

actionpack

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

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.

aasm

AASM is a continuation of the acts-as-state-machine rails plugin, built for plain Ruby objects.

actionmailer

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

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.

jruby-jars

This gem includes JRuby core and the Ruby standard library as jar files. It provides a way to have other gems depend on JRuby without including (and freezing to) a specific jruby-complete jar version.

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.