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A curated list of awesome Ruby – Ruby frameworks, Ruby libraries and Ruby resources. Inspired by awesome-php (https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) & awesome-python (https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python).
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Topics
Major programming topics
Secondary topics
Admin Panels
- Libraries for administrative interfaces.*
- Ruby active_admin - https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications
- Ruby rails_admin - https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
- Ruby administrate - https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate - A framework for creating flexible, powerful admin dashboards in Rails.
Anti-spam
- Libraries for fighting spam.*
- Ruby RubySpamAssassin - https://github.com/noeticpenguin/RubySpamAssassin - Kills Spam Dead. Perhaps before it's sent!
Asset Management
- Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.*
- Ruby sprockets - https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets - Rack-based asset packaging system
- Ruby rails-assets - https://github.com/rails-assets/rails-assets/ - is the frictionless proxy between Bundler and Bower
Audio
- Ruby seal - https://github.com/zhangsu/seal - A C library (with Ruby binding) for 3D audio rendering
Auditing
Ruby Tools for logging changes to ActiveRecord models
- Ruby Audited - https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited - Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.
- Ruby Logidze - https://github.com/palkan/logidze - - Logs model changes via database triggers (PL/SQL functions). Fastest model diffs. PostgreSQL 9.5+ only.
Authentication and OAuth
Ruby Authentication and OAuth - Ruby Authentication and Ruby OAuth
Ruby Libraries for implementing Ruby authentications schemes
- Ruby [Ruby Devise (https://github.com/plataformatec/devise - Devise is a flexible Ruby authentication solution for Rails based on Warden
- Ruby [Omniauth (https://github.com/intridea/omniauth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware
- Ruby Warden - https://github.com/hassox/warden - General Rack Authentication Framework
- Ruby AuthLogic - https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic - A simple ruby authentication solution
- Ruby Sorcery - https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery - Magical authentication for Rails 3 & 4
- Ruby CanCanCan - https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan) Authorization gem for Rails (continued version of CanCan from ryanb)
- Ruby pundit - https://github.com/elabs/pundit - Minimal authorization using object oriented design.
- Ruby authority - https://github.com/nathanl/authority - ORM neutral authorization.
- Ruby doorkeeper - https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper) An OAuth 2 provider for Rails
- Ruby tiddle - https://github.com/adamniedzielski/tiddle/ - Devise strategy for token authentication in API-only Ruby on Rails applications
Build Tools
- Compile software from source code.*
- Ruby teapot - https://github.com/ioquatix/teapot) A decentralised build tool for managing complex cross-platform projects
Caching
- Libraries for caching data.*
- Ruby rack-cache - https://github.com/rtomayko/rack-cache) HTTP Caching for Ruby Web Apps
- Ruby Dalli - https://github.com/mperham/dalli - a high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.
Cloud Services
- Ruby fog - https://github.com/fog/fog) The Ruby cloud services library
- Ruby aws-sdk-ruby - https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby) The official AWS SDK for Ruby
CMS
- Content management systems*
- Ruby Refinery CMS - http://www.refinerycms.com) An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 3.2 and 4.2
- Ruby Comfortable Mexican Sofa - https://github.com/comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa) A powerful Rails 4/5 CMS Engine
- Ruby Browser - http://www.browsercms.org/) Humane Content Management for Rails
- Ruby Locomotive - http://www.locomotivecms.com/) a brand new CMS system with super sexy UI and cool features
- Ruby Radiant - http://radiantcms.org/) A no-fluff, open source content management system
- Ruby Nesta - http://nestacms.com/) A lightweight CMS, implemented in Sinatra
- Ruby alchemy_cms - https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms) the most powerful, user friendly and flexible Rails CMS
- Ruby weby - https://github.com/cercomp/weby) Newbie CMS in Ruby on Rails
Code Analysis and Linter
- Libraries and tools for analyzing, parsing and manipulation codebases.*
- Ruby sonarlint-intellij - https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarlint-intellij - An IDE extension that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code.
- Ruby Rubocop - https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
- Ruby ruby-lint - https://github.com/YorickPeterse/ruby-lint - ruby-lint is a static code analysis tool for Ruby
- Ruby brakeman - https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman - Static analysis tool which checks Ruby on Rails applications for security vulnerabilities
- Ruby reek - https://github.com/troessner/reek - Code smell detector for Ruby
- Ruby Breezer - https://github.com/lambda2/breezer - Lock your Gemfile dependencies to safe versions.
Command-line Tools
- Libraries for building command-line application.*
- Ruby Commander - http://visionmedia.github.io/commander/ - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables
- Ruby Thor - https://github.com/erikhuda/thor - Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces
Configuration
- Libraries for storing configuration options.*
CSS and Styling
Ruby CSS and Styling - Ruby CSS and Ruby Styling - CSS and Styling - CSS and Styling
- Ruby sass - https://github.com/sass/sass) A CSS preproccessor
- Ruby sass-rails - https://github.com/rails/sass-rails) Rails stylesheet engine for Sass
- Ruby less-rails - https://github.com/metaskills/less-rails) The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails
- Ruby compass - https://github.com/Compass/compass) A a Stylesheet Authoring Environment
- Ruby bootstrap-sass - https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass) Official Sass port of Bootstrap
- Ruby foundation-rails - https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails) Foundation for Rails
- Ruby bootswatch-rails - https://github.com/maxim/bootswatch-rails) Bootswatches converted to SCSS ready to use in Rails
- Ruby bourbon - https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon) A lightweight mixin library for Sass
Data Validation
- Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.*
- Ruby kangal - https://github.com/lab2023/kangal - Extended validation gem for email, subdomain, credit card, tax number etc
- Ruby bin_checker - https://github.com/lab2023/bin_checker - BIN validator for Turkish Banks
Data Visualization
- Libraries for visualizing data.*
- Ruby prosperity - https://github.com/smathieu/prosperity) The easiest way to graph data from your Rails models
Database Drivers
Ruby Libraries for connecting and operating databases
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- Ruby ruby-pg - https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg) Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL >= 8.4
- Ruby mysql2 - https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2) A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby
- Ruby sqlite3-ruby - https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby) Ruby bindings for the SQLite3 embedded database
Date and Time
- Libraries for working with dates and times.*
- Ruby stamp - https://github.com/jeremyw/stamp) Date and time formatting for humans
- Ruby chronic - https://github.com/mojombo/chronic) Natural language date/time parser
Debugging Tools
- Ruby byebug - https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/byebug - Debugging in Ruby 2
- Ruby debugger - https://github.com/cldwalker/debugger - port of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
- Ruby puts_debuggerer - https://github.com/AndyObtiva/puts_debuggerer - Debugger-less debugging FTW
DevOps Tools
- Software and libraries for DevOps.*
- Ruby Puppet - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet - Server automation framework and application
- Ruby Chef - https://github.com/chef/chef - A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
- Ruby Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/ - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
- Ruby Capistrano - http://capistranorb.com/ - Remote multi-server automation tool
- Ruby Mina - https://github.com/mina-deploy/mina) Really fast deployer and server automation tool
- Ruby Nanobox - https://github.com/nanobox-io/nanobox - A micro-PaaS (μPaaS) for creating consistent, isolated, Ruby environments deployable anywhere https://nanobox.io.
Distribution
- Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.*
- Ruby fpm - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) Building packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
Documentation
- Libraries for generating project documentation.*
- Ruby Dictum - https://github.com/Wolox/dictum - A tool that let's you create automatic documentation of your Rails API endpoints through your tests.
- Ruby rdoc - https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc) HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects
- Ruby yard - https://github.com/lsegal/yard) A Ruby Documentation tool
Downloader
- Libraries for downloading.*
- Ruby GitHub Starred Repos Downloader - https://github.com/LeonardoCardoso/gsrd - gsrd downloads your public starred repos. Just in case you want to keep a backup of them from time to time.
E-Commerce & Online Paying
- Ruby Active Merchant - https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant - A simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify.
- Ruby Spree - https://github.com/spree/spree - A complete open source e-commerce solution for Ruby on Rails.
- Ruby Square SDK - https://github.com/square/square-ruby-sdk - Use this gem to integrate Square payments into your app and grow your business with Square APIs including Catalog, Customers, Employees, Inventory, Labor, Locations, and Orders.
- Ruby PayPal Merchant SDK - https://github.com/paypal/merchant-sdk-ruby - Provides Ruby APIs for processing payments, recurring payments, subscriptions and transactions using PayPal's Merchant APIs.
- Libraries for sending and parsing email.*
- Ruby mail - https://github.com/mikel/mail) A Really Ruby Mail Library
- Ruby mailman - https://github.com/mailman/mailman) An incoming mail processing microframework in Ruby
Environment Management
- Libraries for Ruby version and environment management.*
- Ruby chruby - https://github.com/postmodern/chruby - Changes the current Ruby
- Ruby chgems - https://github.com/postmodern/chgems - Chroot for RubyGems
- Ruby rvm - https://rvm.io/ - Ruby Version Manager
- Ruby ruby-install - https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install - Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev or MRuby
- Ruby ruby-build - https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build - Compile and install Ruby
- Ruby Nanobox - https://github.com/nanobox-io/nanobox - A tool for creating isolated Ruby environments for consistency across teams and application stages (dev, staging, production, etc.) https://nanobox.io.
Error Handling
- Libraries for exception and error handling.*
- Ruby Exception Notification - https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification - A set of notifiers for sending notifications when errors occur in a Rack/Rails application
- Ruby Errbit - http://errbit.github.io/errbit - The open source, self-hosted error catcher
- Ruby Airbrake - https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake - The official Airbrake library for Ruby on Rails (and other Rack based frameworks)
- Ruby Better Errors - https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors - Better error page for Rack apps
File Uploading
- Libraries for handling file uploads.*
- Ruby paperclip - https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord
- Ruby dragonfly - https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly) On-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more
- Ruby carrierwave - https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave) Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks
- Ruby attache - https://github.com/choonkeat/attache - Yet another approach to file upload https://attache-demo.herokuapp.com
Feature flipping
- Libraries for flipping features*
- Ruby abstract_feature_branch - https://github.com/AndyObtiva/abstract_feature_branch) a gem that enables developers to easily branch by abstraction
- Ruby helioth - https://github.com/gmontard/helioth) Manage feature flipping and rollout
- Ruby flipper - https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper) feature flipping for ANYTHING
- Ruby flip - https://github.com/pda/flip) Flip lets you declare and manage feature flags, backed by cookies (private testing) and database (site-wide)
- Ruby rollout - https://github.com/FetLife/rollout) Feature flippers.
Foreign Function Interface
- Libraries for providing foreign function interface.*
Forms
- Libraries for working with forms.*
- Ruby simple_form - https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form) Forms made easy for Rails
- Ruby formtastic - https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic) A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup
- Ruby bootstrap_form - https://github.com/bootstrap-ruby/bootstrap_form) A Rails form builder that makes it super easy to integrate Bootstrap v4-style forms into your Rails application
Game Development
- Awesome game development libraries.*
- Ruby Gosu - https://www.libgosu.org/ - A 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages
Geolocation
- Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.*
- Ruby geocoder - https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder) Complete Ruby geocoding solution
- Ruby Geokit - https://github.com/geokit/geokit - Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations.
Git Tools
- Libraries for working with Git VCS*
- Ruby katip - https://github.com/lab2023/katip - Change logger for Git initialized projects
GUI
- Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.*
- Ruby glimmer - https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer) Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library
- Ruby shoes4 - https://github.com/shoes/shoes4) the next version of Shoes
High Performance
- Libraries for making Ruby faster.*
- Ruby EventMachine - https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine - EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
- Ruby Celluloid - https://celluloid.io/ - Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby. It has its own [awesomeness]] - https://github.com/sashaegorov/awesome-celluloid).
HTML/XML/CSS Manipulation
- Libraries for working with HTML, XML & CSS.*
- Ruby loofah - https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah) A general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments
HTTP
- Libraries for working with HTTP.*
- Ruby httparty - https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty) Makes http fun again!
- Ruby faraday - https://github.com/lostisland/faraday) Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
- Ruby http - https://github.com/httprb/http) A simple Ruby DSL for making HTTP requests
- Ruby excon - https://github.com/excon/excon) Usable, fast, simple HTTP(S) 1.1 for Ruby
- Ruby nestful - https://github.com/maccman/nestful) Simple Ruby HTTP/REST client with a sane API
- Ruby response_code - https://github.com/torokmark/response_code) Response Code in readable way
Imagery
Ruby Libraries for manipulating images
- Ruby rmagick - https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick) An interface to the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries
- [minimagick]] - https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick) Minified version of rmagick
- Ruby chunky_png - https://github.com/wvanbergen/chunky_png) Read/write access to PNG images in pure Ruby
- Ruby image_optim - https://github.com/toy/image_optim) Optimize images using multiple utilities
- Ruby magickly - https://github.com/afeld/magickly) image manipulation as a (plugin-able) service
Internationalization
- Libraries for woking with i18n.*
- Ruby i18n - https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n - Basic internationalization(i18n) library for Ruby
- Ruby globalize - https://github.com/globalize/globalize) Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation
- Ruby i18n-tasks - https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks) Manage translations in ruby applications with the awesome power of static analysis
Logging
- Libraries for generating and working with log files.*
- Ruby Logstash - https://github.com/elastic/logstash) Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs.
Machine Learning
- Libraries for Machine Learning.*
- Ruby PredictionIO Ruby SDK - https://github.com/PredictionIO/PredictionIO-Ruby-SDK - The PredictionIO Ruby SDK provides a convenient API to quickly record your users' behavior and retrieve personalized predictions for them
- Ruby m2cgen - https://github.com/BayesWitnesses/m2cgen - A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native Ruby code with zero dependencies.
MapReduce
- Frameworks and libraries for MapReduce.*
Multi-tenancy
- Libraries for managing multi-tenant apps.*
- Ruby Apartment - https://github.com/influitive/apartment - Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications
Natural Language Processing
- Libraries for working with human languages.*
- Ruby Treat - https://github.com/louismullie/treat - Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby
Networking
- Libraries for network programming.*
ORM
- Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or data mapping techniques.*
- Relational Databases
- Ruby ActiveRecord - https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/activerecord - Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes
- Ruby DataMapper - http://datamapper.org/ - DataMapper is an Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. The goal is to create an ORM which is fast, thread-safe and feature rich.
- Ruby Sequel - http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/ - The Database Toolkit for Ruby
- NoSQL Databases
- Ruby Mongoid - http://mongoid.org - Mongoid (pronounced mann-goyd) is an Object-Document-Mapper (ODM) for MongoDB written in Ruby.
- Ruby Ohm - https://github.com/soveran/ohm - Object-Hash Mapping for Redis
Package Management
- Libraries for package and dependency management.*
- Ruby RubyGems - https://rubygems.org/ - RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries
- Ruby Bundler - http://bundler.io - Bundler provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed
- Ruby Homebrew - http://brew.sh - Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t
- Ruby Homebrew Cask - http://caskroom.io/ - Cask provides a friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Pagination
- Ruby kaminari - https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari) A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator
- Ruby will_paginate - https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate) Pagination library for Rails 3, Sinatra, Merb, DataMapper, and more
- Ruby order_query - https://github.com/glebm/order_query) Keyset pagination to find the next or previous record(s) relative to the current one efficiently, e.g. for infinite scroll.
PDF Processing
- Ruby DocRaptor - https://github.com/DocRaptor/docraptor-ruby) Wrapper library for [DocRaptor's]] - https://docraptor.com) Ruby-based HTML-to-PDF API
- Ruby wicked_pdf - https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf) PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
- Ruby pdfkit - https://github.com/pdfkit/pdfkit) HTML+CSS to PDF using wkhtmltopdf
- Ruby prawn - https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn) Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
- Ruby InvoicePrinter - https://github.com/strzibny/invoice_printer - Super simple PDF invoicing in Ruby (built on top of Prawn).
Presentation Tools
- Ruby rabbit - https://github.com/rabbit-shocker/rabbit) A programable presentaton tool by Ruby
- Ruby reveal-ck - https://github.com/jedcn/reveal-ck) Reveal.js presentations with a Ruby toolset
Processes and Threads
- Libraries for woking with processes or threads*
- Ruby Parallel - https://github.com/grosser/parallel - Ruby parallel processing made simple and fast
Profiling
- Ruby bullet - https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet - help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
Push Notification
- Ruby Rpush - https://github.com/rpush/rpush - The push notification service for Ruby.
- Ruby apn_sender - https://github.com/arthurnn/apn_sender - Background worker to send Apple Push Notifications over a persistent TCP socket.
- Ruby Houston - https://github.com/nomad/houston - A simple gem for sending Apple Push Notifications.
- Ruby webpush - https://github.com/zaru/webpush - Encryption Utilities for Web Push protocol
Queue
- Libraries for working with event and task queues.*
- Ruby Resque - https://github.com/resque/resque) A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues.
- Job - https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job) — Database backed asynchronous priority queue.
- Ruby Qu - https://github.com/bkeepers/qu) A Ruby library for queuing and processing background jobs.
- Ruby Sidekiq - https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq) Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
RESTful API
- Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.*
- Ruby Grape - http://intridea.github.io/grape/ - An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
- API - https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api - Rails for API only applications
- Ruby jbuilder - https://github.com/rails/jbuilder - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL
- Ruby rabl - https://github.com/nesquena/rabl - General Ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
- Ruby active_model_serializers - https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers - ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks
- Ruby oat - https://github.com/ismasan/oat - Adapters-based API serializers with Hypermedia support for Ruby apps (HAL, Siren, JSONAPI).
- Ruby APIcasso - https://github.com/ErvalhouS/APIcasso - An abstract API design as a Rails-based mountable engine. RESTfullize your legacy code.
Serverless
- Ruby FaaStRuby - https://faastruby.io - Serverless Software Development Platform for Ruby and Crystal developers.
Spreadsheets
- Libraries for manipulating Excel, Google Spreadsheets, Numbers, OpenOffice and LibreOffice files*
- Ruby spreadsheet - https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet - The Spreadsheet Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents.
- Ruby caxlsx - https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx - Caxlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents.
- Ruby caxlsx_rails - https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx_rails - Axlsx-Rails provides an Axlsx renderer so you can move all your spreadsheet code from your controller into view files.
- Ruby roo - https://github.com/roo-rb/roo - Roo implements read access for all spreadsheet types and read/write access for Google spreadsheets.
- Ruby google-spreadsheet-ruby - https://github.com/gimite/google-spreadsheet-ruby - This is a library to read/write Google Spreadsheet.
- Ruby rubyXL - https://github.com/weshatheleopard/rubyXL - rubyXL is a gem which allows the parsing, creation, and manipulation of Microsoft Excel (.xlsx/.xlsm) Documents
- Ruby Odf-report - https://github.com/sandrods/odf-report - Generates ODF files, given a template (.odt) and data, replacing tags
- Ruby simple_xlsx_writer - https://github.com/harvesthq/simple_xlsx_writer - Just as the name says, simple writter for Office 2007+ Excel files
- Ruby remote_table - https://github.com/seamusabshere/remote_table - Open local or remote XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV (comma separated), TSV (tab separated), other delimited, fixed-width files, and Google Docs.
- Ruby acts_as_caxlsx - https://github.com/caxlsx/acts_as_caxlsx - acts_as_caxlsx lets you turn any ActiveRecord::Base inheriting class into an excel spreadsheet.
- Ruby activeadmin-caxlsx - https://github.com/caxlsx/activeadmin-caxlsx - This gem uses caxlsx to provide excel/xlsx downloads for resources in Active Admin.
- Ruby to_spreadsheet - https://github.com/glebm/to_spreadsheet - Render XLSX from Rails using existing views
- Ruby write_xlsx - https://github.com/cxn03651/write_xlsx - write_xlsx is a gem to create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
- Ruby excel_rails - https://github.com/asanghi/excel_rails - Allows you to program spreadsheets using .rxls views
- Ruby sheets - https://github.com/bspaulding/Sheets - Work with spreadsheets easily in a native ruby format.
- Ruby workbook - https://github.com/murb/workbook - Workbook contains workbooks, as in a table, contains rows, contains cells, reads/writes excel, ods and csv and tab separated files…
- Ruby Spreadsheet report - https://github.com/gnoso/spreadsheet_report - Simple tool for running queries against ActiveRecord and putting them into a Google Spreadsheet.
- Ruby oxcelix - https://github.com/gbiczo/oxcelix - A fast Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsx) file parser that returns a collection of Matrix objects
- Ruby wrap_excel - https://github.com/tomiacannondale/wrap_excel - WrapExcel is to wrap the win32ole, and easy to use Excel operations with ruby. Detailed description please see the README.
- Ruby write_xlsx_rails - https://github.com/maxd/write_xlsx_rails - xlsx renderer for Rails base on write_xlsx gem
- Ruby Fastsheet - https://github.com/dkkoval/fastsheet - Fast spreadsheet reader using Rust native extensions.
Scheduling
- Ruby whenever - https://github.com/javan/whenever) Cron jobs in Ruby
- Ruby resque-scheduler - https://github.com/resque/resque-scheduler) A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of resque
- Ruby rufus-scheduler - https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler) Scheduler for Ruby
- Ruby Clockwork - https://github.com/tomykaira/clockwork) Clockwork is a cron replacement. It runs as a lightweight, long-running Ruby process which sits alongside your web processes (Mongrel/Thin) and your worker processes (DJ/Resque/Minion/Stalker) to schedule recurring work at particular times or dates.
Science and Data Analysis
- Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.*
Search
- Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.*
- Ruby Thinking Sphinx - https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx - Sphinx plugin for ActiveRecord/Rails
- Ruby elasticsearch-ruby - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch
- Ruby Searchkick - https://github.com/ankane/searchkick - Intelligent search made easy
- Ruby Algoliasearch Rails - https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-rails/ - AlgoliaSearch integration to your favorite ORM
- Ruby PgSearch - https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search - PostgreSQL's full text search
- Ruby Rroonga - https://github.com/ranguba/rroonga - The Ruby bindings of Groonga
- Ruby Sunspot - https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot - Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
Site Monitoring
- Libs for analytics, monitoring*
- Ruby rack-google-analytics - https://github.com/kangguru/rack-google-analytics) Simple Rack middleware for implementing google analytics tracking
- Ruby DataDog - https://github.com/DataDog/dogapi-rb) A monitoring service for IT, operations and development teams
- Ruby Instrumental - https://github.com/Instrumental/instrumental_agent-ruby) High-scale, non-blocking agent for [Instrumental]] - https://instrumentalapp.com) application monitoring
- Ruby Keen IO - https://github.com/keenlabs/keen-gem) Build analytics features directly into your Ruby apps
Static Page Generation
- Ruby jekyll - https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll) A blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby
Starter Apps
- App templates for creating apps quickly*
- Ruby suspenders - https://github.com/thoughtbot/suspenders) A Rails template with our standard defaults, ready to deploy to Heroku
- Ruby ruby2-rails4-bootstrap-heroku - https://github.com/diowa/ruby2-rails4-bootstrap-heroku) A starter application based on Ruby 2, Rails 4 and Bootstrap for Sass, deployable on Heroku
- Ruby rails-bootstrap - https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-bootstrap) Rails 4.1 starter app with the Bootstrap front-end framework
- Ruby rails4-starterkit - https://github.com/starterkits/rails4-starterkit) Rails 4.1 starter app with production ready performance, security, and authentication
- Ruby cybele - https://github.com/lab2023/cybele - Rails 4.x template with responder, simple form, haml, exception notification, etc …
Text Processing
Tagging
- Libraries for tagging items.*
- Ruby acts-as-taggable-on - https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on - A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
Template Engine
- Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.*
- Ruby Slim - https://github.com/slim-template/slim) A templating lang that reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.
- Ruby slim-rails - https://github.com/slim-template/slim-rails) Rails port of Slim lang
- Ruby Haml - https://github.com/haml/haml) HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku
- Ruby haml-rails - https://github.com/indirect/haml-rails) Rails port of Haml lang
Testing
- Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*
- Testing Frameworks
- Ruby RSpec - http://rspec.info/ - BDD for Ruby
- Ruby MiniTest - https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking
- Ruby Cucumber] * [[Ruby Cucumber Github - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki - Cucumber is a tool that executes plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests
- Ruby Cucumber Site - https://cucumber.io/ - Behaviour Driven Development with elegacy and joy
- Ruby Spinach - https://github.com/codegram/spinach - Spinach is a high-level BDD framework that leverages the expressive Gherkin language (used by Cucumber) to help you define executable specifications of your application or library's acceptance criteria.
- Ruby Rubytest - http://rubyworks.github.io/rubytest - Rubytest is a testing meta-framework useful for creating highly customize test suites or building whole new test frameworks.
- Ruby BRASS - http://rubyworks.github.io/brass - Bare-metal Ruby assertion system standard used by Rubytest.
- Ruby Lemon - http://rubyworks.github.io/lemon - Strict unit test system built on top of Rubytest.
- Ruby shoulda-matchers - https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers - Collection of testing matchers extracted from Shoulda
- Ruby capybara - https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications
- Mock
- Ruby RSpec-mocks - https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks - RSpec's 'test double' framework, with support for stubbing and mocking
- Ruby Mocha - http://gofreerange.com/mocha/docs/ - Mocking and stubbing library with JMock/SchMock syntax, which allows mocking and stubbing of methods on real (non-mock) classes.
- Ruby FlexMock - https://github.com/jimweirich/flexmock - Flexible mocking for Ruby testing
- Fake Data
- Ruby Faker - https://github.com/stympy/faker - A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
- Ruby ffaker - https://github.com/ffaker/ffaker - Faker Refactored.
- Ruby Forgery - https://github.com/sevenwire/forgery - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.
- Code Coverage
- Ruby simplecov - https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov) Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage
- Load Testing
- Error Handler
Third-party APIs
- Libraries for accessing third party APIs.*
- Ruby koala - https://github.com/arsduo/koala) A lightweight, flexible library for Facebook
- Ruby fb_graph - https://github.com/nov/fb_graph) A full-stack Facebook Graph API wrapper
- Ruby twitter - https://github.com/sferik/twitter) A Ruby interface to the Twitter API
- Ruby tweetstream - https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream) A simple library for consuming Twitter's Streaming API
- Ruby gitlab - https://github.com/NARKOZ/gitlab) Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab API
- Ruby octokit.rb - https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb) Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
- Ruby instagram - https://github.com/Instagram/instagram-ruby-gem) The official gem for the Instagram API
- Ruby linkedin - https://github.com/hexgnu/linkedin) Ruby wrapper for the LinkedIn API
- Ruby twilio-ruby - https://github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby) A Ruby gem for communicating with the Twilio API and generating TwiML
- Ruby viewpoint-spws - https://github.com/zenchild/viewpoint-spws) A Microsoft Sharepoint Web Services library for Ruby.
- Ruby youtube_it - https://github.com/kylejginavan/youtube_it) An object-oriented Ruby wrapper for the YouTube GData API
- Ruby flickraw - https://github.com/hanklords/flickraw) Flickraw is a library to access flickr api
- Ruby f00px - https://github.com/500px/f00px) Official 500px api ruby gem
- Ruby rspotify - https://github.com/guilhermesad/rspotify) Ruby wrapper for the Spotify Web API
URL Manipulation
- Libraries for parsing URLs.*
Video
- Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.*
- Ruby streamio-ffmpeg - https://github.com/streamio/streamio-ffmpeg) Simple yet powerful ruby FFmpeg wrapper for reading metadata and transcoding movies
Web Content Extracting
- Libraries for extracting web contents.*
Web Crawling
- Libraries for scraping websites.*
- Ruby upton - https://github.com/propublica/upton) A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping
Web Frameworks
- Web development frameworks.*
- Ruby Ruby On Rails - http://rubyonrails.org/ - Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity
- Ruby Sinatra - http://www.sinatrarb.com/ - Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
- Ruby Padrino - http://www.padrinorb.com/ - The Godfather of Sinatra provides a full-stack agnostic framework on top of Sinatra
- Ruby Cramp - http://cramp.in/ - Cramp is a fully asynchronous real-time web application framework in Ruby
- Ruby Lotus - http://lotusrb.org/ - A newborn complete Ruby web framework that is simple, fast and lightweight.
- Ruby Cuba - http://cuba.is/ - Cuba is a microframework for web development originally inspired by Rum, a tiny but powerful mapper for Rack applications.
- Ruby Pakyow - https://pakyow.com/ - Pakyow is an open-source framework for the modern web. Build working software faster with a development process that remains friendly to both designers and developers. It's built for getting along.
- Ruby Hyperstack - https://hyperstack.org/ - A complete Isomorphic Ruby Framework using React, Opal and Rails
Web Servers
- App server interface*
- Ruby puma - https://github.com/puma/puma) A simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications.
- Ruby thin - https://github.com/macournoyer/thin) A thin and fast web server
- Ruby trinidad - https://github.com/trinidad/trinidad) Run Rails or Rack applications within an embedded Apache Tomcat container.
- Ruby unicorn - https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn) An HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients.
- Ruby passenger - https://github.com/phusion/passenger) A modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python, and Node.js.
- Ruby pow - https://github.com/basecamp/pow) Pow treats files and directories as ruby objects giving you more power and flexibility.
- Ruby goliath - https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath) is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework.
WebSocket
- Libraries for woking with WebSocket.*
- Ruby Faye - http://faye.jcoglan.com/ruby.html - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
- Ruby websocket-rails - https://github.com/websocket-rails/websocket-rails - Plug and play websocket support for ruby on rails.
- Miscellaneous
- Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.*
- Ruby packetfu - https://github.com/packetfu/packetfu) A mid-level packet manipulation library for Ruby.
- Ruby chatterbot - https://github.com/muffinista/chatterbot) A straightforward ruby-based Twitter Bot Framework, using OAuth to authenticate
- Ruby sneakers - https://github.com/jondot/sneakers) A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ
- Ruby ransack - https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack) Object-based searching.
- Ruby cinch - https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch) The IRC Bot Building Framework
- Ruby pry - https://github.com/pry/pry) An IRB alternative and runtime developer console
- Ruby rib - http://rib.godfat.org/) A lightweight and extensible IRB replacement
- Ruby jazz_hands - https://github.com/nixme/jazz_hands/) Pry-based enhancements for the default Rails 3 and 4 consoles
- Ruby awesome_print - https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print) A Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in full color exposing their internal structure with proper indentation.
- Ruby friendly_id - https://github.com/norman/friendly_id) Slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord
- Ruby backup - https://github.com/backup/backup) An elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems
- Ruby kss - https://github.com/kneath/kss) Documenting CSS and generating styleguides
- Ruby AASM - https://github.com/aasm/aasm - A library for adding finite state machines to Ruby classes
- Ruby JsonCompare - https://github.com/a2design-inc/json-compare - Returns the difference between two JSON files
- Ruby blankable - https://github.com/lab2023/blankable - Adds blank slates to index view in Rails
- Ruby tcmb_currency - https://github.com/lab2023/tcmb_currency - T.C.M.B. currencies for Money Gem
- Ruby enumerize - https://github.com/brainspec/enumerize - Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support
- Ruby lol_dba - https://github.com/plentz/lol_dba - lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed.
- Ruby annotate-models - https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models - Annotate ActiveRecord models
- Ruby fast_attributes - https://github.com/applift/fast_attributes - FastAttributes adds attributes with their types to the class
- Ruby Github Changelog Generator - https://github.com/skywinder/Github-Changelog-Generator) — automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
- Ruby Letter Opener - https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener) — Preview email in the default browser instead of sending it.
- Ruby Auto HTML - https://github.com/dejan/auto_html) — Transforming URLs to appropriate resource (image, link, YouTube, Vimeo video,…).
- Ruby OctoLinker - https://github.com/OctoLinker/browser-extension - Navigate through projects on GitHub.com efficiently with the OctoLinker browser extension.
- Ruby BetterDocs - https://github/khusnetdinov/betterdocs - Documentation with collection practices in ruby. Good for new ruby developers and beginners.
Editor Plugins
- Plugins for various editors.*
- Ruby vim-ruby - https://github.com/vim-ruby/vim-ruby) Vim/Ruby Configuration Files
- Ruby vim-rails - https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails) rails.vim: Ruby on Rails power tools
- Resources
- Where to discover things (libraries, news e.g) about Ruby.*
- Ruby RubyDaily - http://rubydaily.org - Community driven news
- Ruby Ruby Weekly - http://rubyweekly.com/ - A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of Ruby news and articles.
- Ruby Ruby5 - https://ruby5.codeschool.com/ - The latest news in the Ruby and Rails community
- Ruby RubyFlow - http://www.rubyflow.com - Ruby Programming Community Link Blog
People to Follow
- People in Ruby World*
- Ruby Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto - https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz - Creator of Ruby lang
- Ruby David Heinemeier Hansson - https://twitter.com/dhh - Creator of Rails framework
- Ruby Koichi Sasada - https://github.com/ko1 - Ruby core committer and the developer of YARV
- Ruby Aaron Patterson - http://tenderlovemaking.com/ - Committer to Nokogiri, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails
- Ruby Avdi Grimm - http://devblog.avdi.org/ - Host of Ruby Tapas webcasts
- Ruby Aman Gupta - http://tmm1.net/ - Ruby core committer
- Other Awesome Lists
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