Trending Projects for January 18, 2015

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.

web-console

A debugging tool for your Ruby on Rails applications.

globalid

URIs for your models makes it easy to pass references around.

ProMotion

ProMotion gives RubyMotion iOS view controllers a more Ruby-like API.

sensu-extensions

The Sensu extension loader library

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!

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.

maxminddb

Pure Ruby MaxMind DB (GeoIP2) binary file reader.

github-pages

Bootstrap the GitHub Pages Jekyll environment locally.

jsonpath

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

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.

gds-api-adapters

A set of adapters providing easy access to the GDS GOV.UK APIs

fastimage

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

rake-compiler

Provide a standard and simplified way to build and package Ruby extensions (C, Java) using Rake as glue.

hiredis

Ruby wrapper for hiredis (protocol serialization/deserialization and blocking I/O)

sys-cpu

The sys-cpu library provides an interface for gathering information about your system's processor(s). Information includes speed, type, and load average.

jekyll

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

net-dns

Net::DNS is a pure Ruby DNS library, with a clean OO interface and an extensible API.

test-unit

test-unit (Test::Unit) is unit testing framework for Ruby, based on xUnit principles. These were originally designed by Kent Beck, creator of extreme programming software development methodology, for Smalltalk's SUnit. It allows writing tests, checking results and automated testing in Ruby.

github-markup

This gem is used by GitHub to render any fancy markup such as Markdown, Textile, Org-Mode, etc. Fork it and add your own!