Trending Projects for July 20, 2014

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

maxminddb

Pure Ruby MaxMind DB (GeoIP2) binary file reader.

semantic-ui-sass

Semantic UI, converted to Sass and ready to drop into Rails, Compass, or Sprockets.

dropzonejs-rails

Adds Dropzone, a great JS File upload by Matias Meno, to the Rails Asset pipeline.

chef-vault

Data encryption support for Chef Infra using data bags

byebug

Byebug is a Ruby debugger. It's implemented using the TracePoint C API for execution control and the Debug Inspector C API for call stack navigation. The core component provides support that front-ends can build on. It provides breakpoint handling and bindings for stack frames among other things and it comes with an easy to use command line interface.

autoprefixer-rails

Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to CSS rules using values from the Can I Use website.

rugged

Rugged is a Ruby bindings to the libgit2 linkable C Git library. This is for testing and using the libgit2 library in a language that is awesome.

rollbar

Track and debug errors in your Ruby applications with ease using Rollbar. With this gem, you can easily monitor and report on exceptions and other errors in your code, helping you identify and fix issues more quickly. Rollbar's intuitive interface and advanced error tracking features make it the perfect tool for ensuring the stability and reliability of your Ruby applications.

chartkick

Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby

sensu-plugin

Plugins and helper libraries for Sensu, a monitoring framework

her

Her is an ORM that maps REST resources and collections to Ruby objects

diffy

Convenient diffing in ruby

asciidoctor

A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.

honeybadger

Make managing application errors a more pleasant experience.

fpm

Convert directories, rpms, python eggs, rubygems, and more to rpms, debs, solaris packages and more. Win at package management without wasting pointless hours debugging bad rpm specs!

ethon

Very lightweight libcurl wrapper.

rotp

Works for both HOTP and TOTP, and includes QR Code provisioning

kramdown

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

rgeo-shapefile

RGeo is a geospatial data library for Ruby. RGeo::Shapefile is an optional RGeo module for reading the ESRI shapefile format, a common file format for geospatial datasets.

deface

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

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

rgeo

RGeo is a geospatial data library for Ruby. It provides an implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Simple Features Specification, used by most standard spatial/geographic data storage systems such as PostGIS. A number of add-on modules are also available to help with writing location-based applications using Ruby-based frameworks such as Ruby On Rails.

jekyll

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

fluent-logger

fluent logger for ruby

redis

A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.

progress_bar

Give people feedback about long-running tasks without overloading them with information: Use a progress bar, like Curl or Wget!

logger

Provides a simple logging utility for outputting messages.

rubygems-update

A package (also known as a library) contains a set of functionality that can be invoked by a Ruby program, such as reading and parsing an XML file. We call these packages 'gems' and RubyGems is a tool to install, create, manage and load these packages in your Ruby environment. RubyGems is also a client for RubyGems.org, a public repository of Gems that allows you to publish a Gem that c...

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.

active_utils

Common utils used by active_merchant, active_fulfillment, and active_shipping

faker

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

i18n

New wave Internationalization support for Ruby.

fast_gettext

A simple, fast, memory-efficient and threadsafe implementation of GetText

activemodel

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

pdf-reader

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

typhoeus

Like a modern code version of the mythical beast with 100 serpent heads, Typhoeus runs HTTP requests in parallel while cleanly encapsulating handling logic.

railties

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

pony

Send email in one command: Pony.mail(:to => 'someone@example.com', :body => 'hello')

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.

active_hash

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

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(:...

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.

bson

A fully featured BSON specification implementation in Ruby

actionpack

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

recaptcha

Helpers for the reCAPTCHA API