Trending Projects for September 14, 2014

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

activejob

Declare job classes that can be run by a variety of queuing backends.

sneakers

Fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ

serverengine

A framework to implement robust multiprocess servers like Unicorn

backburner

Beanstalk background job processing made easy

elasticsearch-model

ActiveModel/Record integrations for Elasticsearch.

chef-sugar

A series of helpful sugar of the Chef core and other resources to make a cleaner, more lean recipe DSL, enforce DRY principles, and make writing Chef recipes an awesome experience!

aws-sdk-core

Provides API clients for AWS. This gem is part of the official AWS SDK for Ruby.

chef-vault

Data encryption support for Chef Infra using data bags

webdriver-user-agent

A helper gem to emulate populate device user agents and resolutions when using webdriver

hitimes

A fast, high resolution timer library for recording performance metrics.

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.

secure_headers

Add easily configured security headers to responses including content-security-policy, x-frame-options, strict-transport-security, etc.

plist

Plist is a library to manipulate Property List files, also known as plists. It can parse plist files into native Ruby data structures as well as generating new plist files from your Ruby objects.

mimemagic

Fast mime detection by extension or content (Uses freedesktop.org.xml shared-mime-info database)

caboose-cms

CMS built on rails with love.

capistrano-rbenv

rbenv integration for Capistrano

rack-attack

A rack middleware for throttling and blocking abusive requests

jsonpath

Ruby implementation of http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/.

mixpanel-ruby

The official Mixpanel tracking library for ruby

sys-filesystem

The sys-filesystem library provides a cross-platform interface for gathering filesystem information, such as disk space and mount point data.

loofah

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah also includes some HTML sanitizers based on `html5lib`'s safelist, which are a specific application of the general transformation functionality.

doorkeeper

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Rails and Grape.

timers

Pure Ruby one-shot and periodic timers.

sentry-raven

A gem that provides a client interface for the Sentry error logger

celluloid

Celluloid enables people to build concurrent programs out of concurrent objects just as easily as they build sequential programs out of sequential objects

actionpack-page_caching

Static page caching for Action Pack (removed from core in Rails 4.0)

bugsnag

Ruby notifier for bugsnag.com

signet

Signet is an OAuth 1.0 / OAuth 2.0 implementation.

rb-inotify

A Ruby wrapper for Linux inotify, using FFI

google-api-client

Client for accessing Google APIs

rinku

A fast and very smart autolinking library that acts as a drop-in replacement for Rails `auto_link`

vagrant-vbguest

A Vagrant plugin which automatically installs the host's VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest system.

ar-octopus

This gem allows you to use sharded databases with ActiveRecord. This also provides a interface for replication and for running migrations with multiples shards.

timezone

Accurate current and historical timezones for Ruby with support for Geonames and Google latitude - longitude lookups.

countries

All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as pretty little country objects. It includes data from ISO 3166

sidekiq

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.

active_model_serializers

ActiveModel::Serializers allows you to generate your JSON in an object-oriented and convention-driven manner.

fluentd

Fluentd is an open source data collector designed to scale and simplify log management. It can collect, process and ship many kinds of data in near real-time.

meta-tags

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin for Ruby on Rails applications.

fastimage

FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed.

aruba

Extension for popular TDD and BDD frameworks like "Cucumber", "RSpec" and "Minitest", to make testing command line applications meaningful, easy and fun.

test_after_commit

makes after_commit callbacks testable in Rails 3+ with transactional_fixtures

slim-rails

Provides the generator settings required for Rails to use Slim

progress

Show progress of long running tasks

ransack

Ransack is the successor to the MetaSearch gem. It improves and expands upon MetaSearch's functionality, but does not have a 100%-compatible API.