Trending Projects for July 07, 2013

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

action_args

Rails plugin gem that supports Merbish style controller action arguments.

a9n

a9n - ruby/rails apps configuration manager

active_hash

Includes the ability to specify data using hashes, yml files or JSON files

active_record_shards

Easily run queries on shard and replica databases.

acts_as_enum

For multiple values activerecord attributes. This gem have some very useful methods and constants for attribute.

active_fulfillment

Framework and tools for dealing with shipping, tracking and order fulfillment services.

ace-rails-ap

The Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor (Ace) for the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline.

activevalidators

ActiveValidators is a collection of ActiveModel/ActiveRecord validations

activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter

Sqlite3 JDBC adapter for JRuby on Rails.

jbuilder

Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL

bigdecimal

This library provides arbitrary-precision decimal floating-point number class.

capybara-screenshot

When a Cucumber step fails, it is useful to create a screenshot image and HTML file of the current page

google-api-client

Client for accessing Google APIs

calabash-cucumber

calabash-cucumber drives tests for native iOS apps. You must link your app with calabash-ios-server framework to execute tests.

activerecord-import

A library for bulk inserting data using ActiveRecord.

asset_sync

After you run assets:precompile your compiled assets will be synchronised with your S3 bucket.

bootstrap-sass

bootstrap-sass is a Sass-powered version of Bootstrap 3, ready to drop right into your Sass powered applications.

gli

Build command-suite CLI apps that are awesome. Bootstrap your app, add commands, options and documentation while maintaining a well-tested idiomatic command-line app

active_utils

Common utils used by active_merchant, active_fulfillment, and active_shipping

awesome_print

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

deface

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

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.

carrierwave

Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them to a range of ORMs, store them on different backends.

ffi

Ruby FFI library

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.

faker

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

pdfkit

Uses wkhtmltopdf to create PDFs using HTML

middleman

A static site generator. Provides dozens of templating languages (Haml, Sass, Compass, Slim, CoffeeScript, and more). Makes minification, compression, cache busting, Yaml data (and more) an easy part of your development cycle.

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 ...

activemodel

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

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.

actionpack

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

puppet

Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

dragonfly

Dragonfly is a framework that enables on-the-fly processing for any content type. It is especially suited to image handling. Its uses range from image thumbnails to standard attachments to on-demand text generation.

activeresource

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

icalendar

Implements the iCalendar specification (RFC-5545) in Ruby. This allows for the generation and parsing of .ics files, which are used by a variety of calendaring applications.

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.