Trending Projects for April 28, 2013

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

cocoapods-core

The CocoaPods-Core gem provides support to work with the models of CocoaPods. It is intended to be used in place of the CocoaPods when the the installation of the dependencies is not needed.

dotenv

Loads environment variables from `.env`.

rack-mini-profiler

Profiling toolkit for Rack applications with Rails integration. Client Side profiling, DB profiling and Server profiling.

xcodeproj

Xcodeproj lets you create and modify Xcode projects from Ruby. Script boring management tasks or build Xcode-friendly libraries. Also includes support for Xcode workspaces (.xcworkspace) and configuration files (.xcconfig).

octokit

Simple wrapper for the GitHub API

parallel_tests

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

httpi

Common interface for Ruby's HTTP libraries

parallel

Run any kind of code in parallel processes

slim-rails

Provides the generator settings required for Rails to use Slim

omniauth-google-oauth2

A Google OAuth2 strategy for OmniAuth 1.x. This allows you to login to Google with your ruby app.

sinatra-contrib

Collection of useful Sinatra extensions

commander

The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables. Commander bridges the gap between other terminal related libraries you know and love (OptionParser, HighLine), while providing many new features, and an elegant API.

redis-store

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

css_parser

A set of classes for parsing CSS in Ruby.

facter

You can prove anything with facts!

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...

pry-doc

Pry Doc is a Pry REPL plugin. It provides extended documentation support for the REPL by means of improving the `show-doc` and `show-source` commands. With help of the plugin the commands are be able to display the source code and the docs of Ruby methods and classes implemented in C. documentation

Pg is the Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL RDBMS. It works with PostgreSQL 9.3 and later.

rails-i18n

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

guard

Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.

cucumber

Behaviour Driven Development with elegance and joy

httparty

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

gherkin

Gherkin parser

deface

Deface is a library that allows you to customize ERB, Haml and Slim views in a Rails application without editing the underlying view.

xpath

XPath is a Ruby DSL for generating XPath expressions

capybara

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

awesome_print

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

mixlib-cli

A simple mixin for CLI interfaces, including option parsing

uglifier

Uglifier minifies JavaScript files by wrapping UglifyJS to be accessible in Ruby

ancestry

Ancestry allows the records of a ActiveRecord model to be organized in a tree structure, using the materialized path pattern. It exposes the standard relations (ancestors, parent, root, children, siblings, descendants) and allows them to be fetched in a single query. Additional features include named scopes, integrity checking, integrity restoration, arrangement of (sub)tree into ha...

stringex

Some [hopefully] useful extensions to Ruby's String class. Stringex is made up of three libraries: ActsAsUrl [permalink solution with better character translation], Unidecoder [Unicode to ASCII transliteration], and StringExtensions [miscellaneous helper methods for the String class].

mixlib-log

A gem that provides a simple mixin for log functionality

stomp

Ruby client for the Stomp messaging protocol.

faker

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

chef

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

padrino-helpers

Tag helpers, asset helpers, form helpers, form builders and many more helpers for padrino

padrino-core

The Padrino core gem required for use of this framework

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 ...

activemerchant

Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library used in and sponsored by Shopify. It is written by Tobias Luetke, Cody Fauser, and contributors. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.

authlogic

An unobtrusive ruby authentication library based on ActiveRecord.