Awesome Ruby

A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software. The essential Ruby to build modern Apps and Web Apps.

Inspired by the awesome-* trend on GitHub.

The goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

Sharing, suggestions and contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and quality standard first.

Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you!

• Awesome Ruby
  • Abstraction
  • Admin Interface
  • Analytics
  • API Builder
  • Assets
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Authorization
  • Caching
  • CLI Builder
  • CMS
  • Code Analysis and Metrics
  • Coding Style Guides
  • Concurrency
  • Configuration
  • Core Extensions
  • Country Data
  • Dashboards
  • Data Visualization
  • Database Drivers
  • Database Tools
  • Date and Time Processing
  • Debugging Tools
  • Decorators
  • DevOps Tools
  • Documentation
  • E-Commerce and Payments
  • Ebook
  • Email
  • Environment Management
  • Error Handling
  • File Upload
  • Form Builder
  • Game Development
  • Geolocation
  • Git Tools
  • GUI
  • HTML/XML Parsing
  • HTTP
  • Imagery
  • Internationalization
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Markdown Processors
  • Misc
  • Mobile Development
  • Money
  • Natural Language Processing
  • ORM/ODM
  • ORM/ODM Extensions
  • Package Management
  • Pagination
  • PDF
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Process Monitoring
  • Processes and Threads
  • Profiler
  • Queue
  • Rails Application Generators
  • Robotics
  • RSS
  • Scheduling
  • Scientific
  • Search
  • SEO
  • Social Networking
  • State Machines
  • Static Site Generation
  • Template Engine
  • Testing
  • Third-party APIs
  • Video
  • Web Crawling
  • Web Frameworks
  • Web Servers
  • WebSocket
• Services and Apps
• Resources
• Other Awesome Lists

Abstraction

• ActiveInteraction - Manage application specific business logic.
• Cells - View Components for Rails.
• Decent Exposure - A helper for creating declarative interfaces in controllers.
• Interactor - Interactor provides a common interface for performing complex interactions in a single request.
• Light Service - Series of Actions with an emphasis on simplicity.
• Mutations - Compose your business logic into commands that sanitize and validate input.
• Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

Admin Interface

• ActiveAdmin - A Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
• bhf - A simple to use Rails-Engine-Gem that offers an admin interface for trusted user.
• RailsAdmin - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.
• Typus - Ruby on Rails control panel to allow trusted users edit structured content.
• Upmin Admin - A framework for creating powerful Ruby on Rails admin backends with minimal effort.

Analytics

• Ahoy - A solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.
• FnordMetric - A ruby/redis framework for collecting and visualizing timeseries data. It enables you to build beautiful real-time analytics dashboards within minutes.
• Gabba - Simple way to send server-side notifications to Google Analytics.
• Legato - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.
• Staccato - Track analytics into the official Google Analytics Collection API.

API Builder

• ActiveModel::Serializers - JSON serialization of objects.
• Crêpe - The thin API stack.
• Grape - An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
• jbuilder - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.
• JSONAPI::Resources - JSONAPI::Resources, or "JR", provides a framework for developing a server that complies with the JSON API specification.
• Jsonite - A tiny, HAL-compliant JSON presenter for your APIs.
• Pliny - Opinionated template Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.
• rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support.
• Rails::API - Rails for API only applications.
• Roar - Resource-Oriented Architectures in Ruby.

Assets

• Less Rails - The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails asset pipeline.
• Less - Leaner CSS, in your browser or Ruby.
• Sass - Sass makes CSS fun again.
• Management:
  • Rails Assets - Bundler to Bower proxy
  • Sprockets - Rack-based asset packaging system.
• Development:
  • Quiet Assets - Mute assets pipeline log messages.

Authentication and OAuth

• Authlogic - Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.
• Clearance - Small and simple email & password based authenticaton for Rails.
• Devise - A flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden.
• OmniAuth - A library that standardizes multi-provider authentication utilizing Rack middleware.
• Sorcery - Magical Authentication for Rails 3 and 4.
• OAuth:
  • Doorkeeper - An OAuth2 provider for Rails.
  • OAuth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol.

Authorization

• Authority - ORM-neutral way to authorize actions in your Rails app.
• CanCanCan - Continuation of CanCan, an authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
• Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes.

Caching

• Action caching for Action Pack - Action caching for Action Pack.
• Dalli - A high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.
• Record Cache - Cache Active Model Records in Rails 3.

CLI Builder

• Commander - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables.
• GLI - Git-Like Interface Command Line Parser.
• Main - A class factory and DSL for generating command line programs real quick.
• Rake - A make-like build utility for Ruby.
• Slop - Simple Lightweight Option Parsing.
• Thor - A toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.
• TTY - Toolbox for developing CLI clients.

CMS

• Alchemy CMS - A powerful, userfriendly and flexible Open Source Rails CMS.
• Comfortable Mexican Sofa - A powerful Rails 4 CMS Engine.
• LocomotiveCMS - A simple but powerful CMS based on Liquid templates and Mongodb database.
• Publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.
• Radiant - A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
• Refinery CMS - An open source Ruby on Rails content management system for Rails 3 and 4.

Code Analysis and Metrics

• Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications.
• Flay - Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored. Making this totally rad.
• Flog - Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.
• fukuzatsu - Complexity analysis tool with a rich web front-end.
• MetricFu - A fist full of code metrics.
• rails_best_practices - A code metric tool for rails projects.
• Reek - Code smell detector for Ruby.
• Rubocop - A static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
• Rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter.
• SimpleCov - Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

Coding Style Guides

• Rails style guide - Community-driven Rails best practices and style for Rails 3 and 4.
• RSpec style guide - Better Specs { rspec guidelines with ruby }.
• Ruby style guide - Community-driven Ruby coding style.

Concurrency

• Celluloid - Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby.
• Concurrent Ruby - Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.
• EventMachine - An event-driven I/O and lightweight concurrency library for Ruby.

Configuration

• Configatron - Simple and feature rich configuration system for Ruby apps.
• Configus - Helps you easily manage environment specific settings.
• dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env.
• Econfig - Flexible configuration for Rails applications.
• Figaro - Simple, Heroku-friendly Rails app configuration using ENV and a single YAML file.
• Global - Provides accessor methods for your configuration data.
• RailsConfig - Multi-environment yaml settings for Rails3.

Core Extensions

• ActiveSupport - A collection of utility classes and standard library extensions.
• Ruby Facets - The premiere collection of general purpose method extensions and standard additions for Ruby.
• Attributes
  • ActiveAttr - What ActiveModel left out.
  • FastAttributes - FastAttributes adds attributes with their types to the class.
  • Virtus - Attributes on Steroids for Plain Old Ruby Objects.
• Hash
  • Hashie - A collection of tools that extend Hashes and make them more useful.

Country Data

• Carmen - A repository of geographic regions.
• Countries - All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as pretty little country objects.
• i18n_data - country/language names and 2-letter-code pairs, in 85 languages, for country/language i18n.
• normalize_country - Convert country names and codes to a standard, includes a conversion program for XMLs, CSVs and DBs.

Dashboards

• Dashing - A Sinatra based framework that lets you build beautiful dashboards.
• Dashing-Rails - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework for Rails.

Data Visualization

• RailRoady - Ruby on Rails 3/4 model and controller UML class diagram generator.
• Rails Erd - Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications.
• Ruby/GraphViz - Ruby interface to the GraphViz graphing tool.

Database Drivers

• Cassandra Driver - A pure ruby driver for Apache Cassandra with asynchronous io and configurable load balancing, reconnection and retry policies.
• DataObjects - An attempt to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to one, standard interface.
• mongo-ruby-driver - MongoDB Ruby driver.
• moped - A MongoDB driver for Ruby.
• mysql2 - A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby (binding to libmysql).
• Redic - Lightweight Redis Client.
• redis-rb - A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.
• ruby-pg - Ruby interface to PostgreSQL 8.3 and later.
• SQLite3 - Ruby bindings for the SQLite3 embedded database.

Database Tools

• Database Cleaner - Database Cleaner is a set of strategies for cleaning your database in Ruby.
• PgHero - Postgres insights made easy.
• Seed dump - Rails 4 task to dump (parts) of your database to db/seeds.rb.
• Seed Fu - Advanced seed data handling for Rails.

Date and Time Processing

• business_time - Support for doing time math in business hours and days.
• ByStar - Find ActiveRecord objects by year, month, fortnight, week and more!
• Chronic - A natural language date/time parser written in pure Ruby.
• groupdate - The simplest way to group temporal data in ActiveRecord, arrays and hashes.
• local_time - Rails Engine for cache-friendly, client-side local time.
• time-lord - Adds extra functionality to the time class.
• time_diff - Calculates the difference between two time.
• TZinfo - Provides daylight savings aware transformations between times in different timezones.
• validates_timeliness - Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails.
• yymmdd - Tiny DSL for idiomatic date parsing and formatting.

Debugging Tools

• Byebug - A simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2.
• debugger - A port of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3.
• did_you_mean - Adds class, method & attributute suggestions to error messages.

Decorators

• Draper - Draper adds an object-oriented layer of presentation logic to your Rails application.

DevOps Tools

• Backup - Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.
• Capistrano - A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby.
• Chef - A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
• Lita - ChatOps for Ruby: A pluggable chat bot framework usable with any chat service.
• Logstash - Logs/event transport, processing, management, search.
• Mina - Really fast deployer and server automation tool.
• 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.
• Rubber - The rubber plugin enables relatively complex multi-instance deployments of RubyOnRails applications to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
• Vagrant - Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

Documentation

• Asciidoctor - A fast, Ruby-based text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook, EPUB3, PDF & more.
• Documentation - A Rails engine to provider the ability to add documentation to a Rails application.
• grape-swagger - Add swagger compliant documentation to your Grape API.
• Inch - Inch is a documentation measurement and evalutation tool for Ruby code, based on YARD.
• RDoc - RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects.
• YARD - YARD enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily.

E-Commerce and Payments

• Active Merchant - A simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify.
• Payola - Drop-in Rails engine for accepting payments with Stripe.
• Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for Ruby.
• Piggybak - Modular, Extensible open-source ecommerce solution for Ruby on Rails.
• ROR Ecommerce - A Rails e-commerce platform.
• Shoppe - A Rails-based e-commerce platform which allows you to easily introduce a catalogue-based store into your Rails 4 applications.
• Spree - Spree is a complete open source e-commerce solution for Ruby on Rails.
• stripe-ruby - Stripe Ruby bindings.

Ebook

• Bookshop - Bookshop is a an open-source agile book development and publishing framework for authors, editors.
• Eeepub - EeePub is a Ruby ePub generator.
• Gepub - A generic EPUB library for Ruby : supports EPUB 3.
• Git Scribe - Basically the best way to write an ebook.
• Mobi - A Ruby way to read MOBI format metadata.
• Review - Re:VIEW is flexible document format/conversion system.

Email

• Incoming - Incoming! helps you receive email in your Rack apps.
• LetterOpener - Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.
• Mail - A Really Ruby Mail Library.
• MailCatcher - Catches mail and serves it through a dream.
• Mailman - An incoming mail processing microframework in Ruby.
• Pony - The express way to send mail from Ruby.

Environment Management

• chgems - Chroot for RubyGems.
• chruby - Change your current Ruby. No shims, no crazy options or features, ~90 LOC.
• fry - Simple ruby version manager for fish.
• gem_home - A tool for changing your $GEM_HOME.
• rbenv - Use rbenv to pick a Ruby version for your application and guarantee that your development environment matches production.
• ruby-build - Compile and install Ruby.
• ruby-install - Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev or MRuby.
• RVM - RVM is a command-line tool which allows you to easily install, manage, and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.

Error Handling

• Airbrake - The official Airbrake library for Ruby on Rails (and other Rack based frameworks).
• Better Errors - Better error page for Rack apps.
• Errbit - The open source, self-hosted error catcher.
• Exception Notification - A set of notifiers for sending notifications when errors occur in a Rack/Rails application.
• Nesty - Nested exceptions for Ruby.
• Raven Ruby - Raven is a Ruby client for Sentry.

File Upload

• CarrierWave - Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks.
• DragonFly - A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!.
• PaperClip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord.
• rack-secure-upload - Upload files securely.

Form Builder

• Abracadabra - The gem that swaps out text with a fully-compliant Rails form in one click.
• Formtastic - A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.
• Rails Bootstrap Forms - Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms with Twitter Bootstrap 3+.
• Simple Form - Rails forms made easy.

Game Development

• Gosu - A 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages.
• Yeah - Practical Ruby video game framework.

Geolocation

• Geocoder - A complete geocoding solution for Ruby. With Rails it adds geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (find street address based on given coordinates), and distance queries.
• Geokit - Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations.

Git Tools

• git-auto-bisect - Find the commit that broke master.
• git-spelunk - Dig through git blame history.
• git-up - Fetch and rebase all locally-tracked remote branches.
• git-whence - Find which merge a commit came from.
• hub - A command line tool that wraps Git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.
• Rugged - Ruby bindings to libgit2.

GUI

• qtbindings - Allows the QT Gui toolkit to be used from Ruby.
• RubyGnome2 - Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2.0 development environment.
• Shoes - Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, and Linux super simple.

HTML/XML Parsing

• HappyMapper - Object to XML mapping library, using Nokogiri.
• Nokogiri - An HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support.
• ROXML - Custom mapping and bidirectional marshalling between Ruby and XML using annotation-style class methods, via Nokogiri or LibXML.

HTTP

• excon - Usable, fast, simple Ruby HTTP 1.1. It works great as a general HTTP(s) client and is particularly well suited to usage in API clients.
• Faraday - an HTTP client lib that provides a common interface over many adapters (such as Net::HTTP) and embraces the concept of Rack middleware when processing the request/response cycle.
• Http Client - Gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.
• http - The HTTP Gem: a simple Ruby DSL for making HTTP requests.
• httparty - Makes http fun again!
• Patron - Patron is a Ruby HTTP client library based on libcurl.
• RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
• Savon - Savon is a SOAP client for the Ruby programming language.
• Sawyer - Secret user agent of HTTP, built on top of Faraday.
• Typhoeus - Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.

Imagery

• MiniMagick - A ruby wrapper for ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick command line.
• PSD.rb - Parse Photoshop files in Ruby with ease.
• RMagick - RMagick is an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick.
• Skeptick - Skeptick is an all-purpose DSL for building and running ImageMagick commands.

Internationalization

• i18n-tasks - Manage missing and unused translations with the awesome power of static analysis.
• i18n - Ruby Internationalization and localization solution.
• r18n - Advanced i18n library for Rails, Sinatra, desktop apps, models, works well with complex languages like Russian.
• twitter-cldr-rb - Ruby implementation of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) that uses the Common Locale Data Repository to format dates, plurals, and more.

Logging

• Cabin - Structured+contextual logging experiments in Ruby.
• Fluentd - Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, database or other types of storages.
• HttpLog - Log outgoing HTTP requests.
• Log4r - Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs.
• Logging - A flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs based on the design of Java's log4j library.
• Lograge - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
• MongoDB Logger - MongoDB logger for Rails.
• Scrolls - Simple logging.
• Yell - Your Extensible Logging Library.

Machine Learning

• PredictionIO Ruby SDK - The PredictionIO Ruby SDK provides a convenient API to quickly record your users' behavior and retrieve personalized predictions for them.
• rb-libsvm - Ruby language bindings for LIBSVM. SVM is a machine learning and classification algorithm.
• ruby-band - Machine learning and data mining algorithms for JRuby.
• Ruby Datumbox Wrapper - It's a simple Ruby Datumbox Wrapper. At the moment the API currently allows you to build applications that make use of machine learning algorithms.

Markdown Processors

• kramdown - Kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.
• Maruku - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter.
• Redcarpet - A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

Misc

• AXLSX - An excel xlsx generation library.
• Betty - Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty.
• Foreman - Manage Procfile-based applications.
• Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
• Guard - A command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.
• JsonCompare - Returns the difference between two JSON files.
• play ► - Your company's dj.
• Pry Debugger - Pry navigation commands via debugger (formerly ruby-debug).
• Pry - A powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby.
• pygments.rb - A Ruby wrapper for the Python pygments syntax highlighter.
• Ruby Operators - A webpage showing awesome names for different Ruby operators.
• Termit - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
• Tokaido - Ruby, Rails, SQLite and Redis encapsulated in a single drag-and-drop OS X app, designed to make installing a working RoR environment easy for beginners.
• Treetop - PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) parser.
• Yomu - Read text and metadata from files and documents (.doc, .docx, .pages, .odt, .rtf, .pdf).

Mobile Development

• Ruboto - A platform for developing full stand-alone apps for Android using the Ruby language and libraries.
• RubyMotion - A revolutionary toolchain that lets you quickly develop and test native iOS and OS X applications for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Money

• eu_central_bank - A gem that calculates the exchange rate using published rates from European Central Bank.
• Money - A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

Natural Language Processing

• Treat - Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby.

ORM/ODM

• ActiveRecord - Object-relational mapping in Rails.
• DataMapper - ORM which works well with legacy databases. Last release (1.2.0) was on 13 October 2011.
• Guacamole - An ODM for ArangoDB.
• Mongoid - An ODM (Object-Document-Mapper) framework for MongoDB in Ruby.
• MongoMapper - A Ruby Object Mapper for Mongo.
• MongoModel - Ruby ODM for interfacing with MongoDB databases.
• ohm - Object-hash mapping library for Redis.
• Sequel - Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby.

ORM/ODM Extensions

• Mongoid Tree - A tree structure for Mongoid documents using the materialized path pattern.

Package Management

• Gems
  • Bundler - Manage your application's gem dependencies with less pain.
  • RubyGems - Community's gem hosting service.
• Packages and Applications
  • Berkshelf - A Chef Cookbook manager.
  • CocoaPods - The Objective-C dependency manager.
  • fpm - Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
  • Homebrew-cask - A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries.
  • Homebrew - The missing package manager for OS X.

Pagination

• Kaminari - A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for modern web app frameworks and ORMs.
• order_query - A keyset pagination library to find the next or previous record(s) relative to the current one efficiently, e.g. for infinite scroll.
• will_paginate - A pagination library that integrates with Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Merb, DataMapper and Sequel.

PDF

• Gimli - Utility for converting markup files to pdf files.
• Kitabu - A framework for creating e-books from Markdown/Textile text markup using Ruby.
• Pdfkit - HTML+CSS to PDF using wkhtmltopdf.
• Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby.
• RGhost - RGhost is a document creation and conversion API.
• Shrimp - A phantomjs based pdf renderer.
• Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails.
• Wisepdf - Wkhtmltopdf wrapper done right.

Performance Monitoring

• New Relic - Find and fix Ruby errors with New Relic application monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Skylight - A smart profiler for your Rails apps that visualizes request performance.
• TraceView - Full-stack application tracing and brilliant data visualization to build faster, more reliable web apps.

Process Monitoring

• Bluepill - Simple process monitoring tool.
• God - An easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby.

Processes and Threads

• Parallel - Run any code in parallel Processes (> use all CPUs) or Threads (> speedup blocking operations). Best suited for map-reduce or e.g. parallel downloads/uploads.
• childprocess - Cross-platform ruby library for managing child processes.
• forkoff - brain-dead simple parallel processing for ruby.
• posix-spawn - Fast Process::spawn for Rubys >= 1.8.7 based on the posix_spawn() system interfaces.

Profiler

• bullet - Help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading.
• Peek - Visual status bar showing Rails performance.
• perftools.rb - gperftools (formerly known as google-perftools) for Ruby code.
• rack-mini-profiler - Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.
• ruby-prof - A code profiler for MRI rubies.

Queue

• active_job - Declare job classes that can be run by a variety of queueing backends.
• Delayed::Job - Database backed asynchronous priority queue.
• Resque - A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs.
• Sidekiq - A full-featured background processing framework for Ruby. It aims to be simple to integrate with any modern Rails application and much higher performance than other existing solutions.
• Sucker Punch - A single process background processing library using Celluloid. Aimed to be Sidekiq's little brother.

Rails Application Generators

• Bootstrappers - Bootstrappers generates a base Rails app using Bootstrap template and other goodies.
• Hobo - The web app builder for Rails.
• Rails Composer - The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps.
• RailsBricks - Boost your Rails development productivity.
• Raygun - Builds applications with the common customization stuff already done.
• Suspenders - Suspenders is the base Rails application used at thoughtbot.

Robotics

• Artoo - Next generation robotics framework with support for different platforms: Arduino, Leap Motion, Pebble, Raspberry Pi, etc.

RSS

• Feed normalizer - Extensible Ruby wrapper for Atom and RSS parsers.
• Feedjira - A feed fetching and parsing library.
• Ratom - A fast, libxml based, Ruby Atom library.
• Simple rss - A simple, flexible, extensible, and liberal RSS and Atom reader.

Scheduling

• 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.
• resque-scheduler - A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque.
• rufus-scheduler - Job scheduler for Ruby (at, cron, in and every jobs).
• Whenever - A Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.

Scientific

• Artificial intelligence
  • AI4R - Algorithms covering several Artificial intelligence fields.
  • ruby-fann - Ruby library for interfacing with FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network).
• Bindings
  • ruby-opencv - An OpenCV wrapper for Ruby.
• Classifiers
  • classifier - A general module to allow Bayesian and other types of classifications.
  • stuff-classifier - A library for classifying text into multiple categories.
• Numerical arrays
  • NMatrix - Fast numerical linear algebra library for Ruby.
  • NArray - N-dimensional Numerical Array for Ruby.
  • mdarray - Multi dimensional array implemented for JRuby inspired by NumPy.
• SciRuby - Tools for scientific computation in Ruby/Rails.
  • statsample - A suite for basic and advanced statistics on Ruby.
  • statsample-timeseries - Bioruby Statsample TimeSeries.
  • statsample-glm - Generalized Linear Models extension for Statsample.
  • distribution - Statistical Distributions multi library wrapper.
  • integration - Numerical integration methods, based on original work by Beng.
  • minimization - Minimization algorithms on pure Ruby.
  • publisci - A toolkit for publishing scientific results to the semantic web.
  • plotrb - A plotting library in Ruby built on top of Vega and D3.
  • rb-gsl - A ruby interface to GNU Scientific library, with NMatrix support.
• Specific
  • BioRuby - Library for developing bioinformatics software.
  • decisiontree - A ruby library which implements ID3 (information gain) algorithm for decision tree learning.
• Utilities
  • smarter_csv - Ruby Gem for smarter importing of CSV Files as Array(s) of Hashes.
  • algorithms - Library with documentation on when to use a particular structure/algorithm.

Search

• attr_searchable - Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord.
• elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch.
• has_scope - Has scope allows you to easily create controller filters based on your resources named scopes.
• pg_search - Builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL's full text search.
• ransack - Object-based searching.
• Rroonga - The Ruby bindings of Groonga.
• Searchkick - Searchkick learns what your users are looking for. As more people search, it gets smarter and the results get better. It’s friendly for developers - and magical for your users.
• Searchlogic - Object based searching, common named scopes, and other useful named scope tools for ActiveRecord.
• Sunspot - A Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine.
• Thinking Sphinx - A library for connecting ActiveRecord to the Sphinx full-text search tool.

SEO

• FriendlyId - The "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Active Record.
• MetaTags - A gem to make your Rails application SEO-friendly.
• SitemapGenerator - A framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby.

Social Networking

• Campo - Campo is a lightweight forum application, base on Ruby on Rails.
• diaspora* - A privacy aware, distributed, open source social network.
• Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
• Forem - Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine.
• Social Shares - A gem to check how many times url was shared in social networks.

State Machines

• AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, Rails Active Record, Mongoid).
• simple_states - A super-slim statemachine-like support library.
• Statesman - A statesmanlike state machine library.
• Workflow - A finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling and interacting with what we tend to refer to as 'workflow'.

Static Site Generation

• High Voltage - Easily include static pages in your Rails app.
• Jekyll - Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs.
• Middleman - A static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development.
• Nanoc - A static site generator, fit for building anything from a small personal blog to a large corporate web site.

Template Engine

• Curly - A template language that completely separates structure and logic.
• Haml - HTML Abstraction Markup Language.
• Liquid - Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
• Mustache - Logic-less Ruby templates.
• Slim - A template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.
• Tilt - Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines.

Testing

• Frameworks
  • RSpec - Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby.
    • Formatters
      • Emoji-RSpec - Custom Emoji Formatters for RSpec.
      • Fuubar - The instafailing RSpec progress bar formatter.
      • Nyan Cat - Nyan Cat inspired RSpec formatter!
  • Bacon - A small RSpec clone.
  • Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications.
  • Cucumber - BDD that talks to domain experts first and code second.
  • Cutest - Isolated tests in Ruby.
  • Konacha - Test your Rails application's JavaScript with the mocha test framework and chai assertion library.
  • minitest - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.
  • RR - A test double framework that features a rich selection of double techniques and a terse syntax.
  • shoulda-matchers - Provides Test::Unit- and RSpec-compatible one-liners that test common Rails functionality. These tests would otherwise be much longer, more complex, and error-prone.
  • 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.
  • Spork - A DRb server for testing frameworks (RSpec / Cucumber currently).
  • Test::Unit - Test::Unit is a xUnit family unit testing framework for Ruby.
• Fake Data
  • Fabrication - A simple and powerful object generation library.
  • factory_girl - A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.
  • Fake Person - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK.
  • faker - A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
  • ffaker - A faster Faker, generates dummy data, rewrite of faker.
  • Forgery - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.
  • Machinist - Fixtures aren't fun. Machinist is.
• Mock
  • ActiveMocker - Generate mocks from ActiveRecord models for unit tests that run fast because they don’t need to load Rails or a database.
  • TestXml - TestXml is a small extension for testing XML/HTML.
  • WebMock - Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests.
• WebDrivers
  • Selenium WebDriver - This gem provides Ruby bindings for WebDriver.
  • Watir - Web application testing in Ruby.
• Extra
  • Appraisal - Appraisal integrates with bundler and rake to test your library against different versions of dependencies.
  • Ruby-JMeter - A Ruby based DSL for building JMeter test plans.
  • Spring - Preloads your rails environment in the background for faster testing and Rake tasks.
  • timecop - Provides "time travel" and "time freezing" capabilities, making it dead simple to test time-dependent code.
  • vcr - Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

Third-party APIs

• databasedotcom - Ruby client for the Salesforce's Database.com and Chatter APIs.
• Dropbox - Dropbox API Ruby Client.
• facy - Command line power tool for facebook.
• fb_graph - A full-stack Facebook Graph API wrapper.
• flickr - A Ruby interface to the Flickr API.
• gitlab - Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab API.
• gmail - A Rubyesque interface to Gmail, with all the tools you'll need.
• hipchat-rb - HipChat HTTP API Wrapper in Ruby with Capistrano hooks.
• instagram-ruby-gem - The official gem for the Instagram REST and Search APIs.
• itunes_store_transporter - Ruby wrapper around Apple's iTMSTransporter program.
• linkedin - Provides an easy-to-use wrapper for LinkedIn's REST APIs.
• Octokit - Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API.
• Pusher - Ruby server library for the Pusher API.
• ruby-gmail - A Rubyesque interface to Gmail.
• ruby-trello - Implementation of the Trello API for Ruby.
• soundcloud-ruby - Official SoundCloud API Wrapper for Ruby.
• t - A command-line power tool for Twitter.
• tweetstream - A simple library for consuming Twitter's Streaming API.
• twitter - A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
• wikipedia - Ruby client for the Wikipedia API.
• youtube_it - An object-oriented Ruby wrapper for the YouTube GData API.
• Yt - An object-oriented Ruby client for YouTube API V3.

Video

• Streamio FFMPEG - Simple yet powerful wrapper around the ffmpeg command for reading metadata and transcoding movies.

Web Crawling

• anemone - Ruby library and CLI for crawling websites.
• LinkThumbnailer - Ruby gem that generates thumbnail images and videos from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.
• Mechanize - Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.
• MetaInspector - Ruby gem for web scraping purposes.
• Upton - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping.
• Wombat - Web scraper with an elegant DSL that parses structured data from web pages.

Web Frameworks

• Camping - A web microframework which consistently stays at less than 4kB of code.
• Cuba - A microframework for web development.
• Lotus - It aims to bring back Object Oriented Programming to web development, leveraging on a stable API, a minimal DSL, and plain objects.
• Padrino - A full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.
• Pakyow - A framework for building modern web-apps in Ruby. It helps you build working software faster with a development process that remains friendly to both designers and developers.
• Ramaze - A simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.
• Roda - A routing tree web framework.
• Ruby on Rails - A web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
• Sinatra - Classy web-development dressed in a DSL.
• Volt - A Ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client.

Web Servers

• Goliath - A non-blocking Ruby web server framework.
• Phusion Passenger - Fast and robust web server and application server.
• Puma - A modern, concurrent web server for Ruby.
• Rack - A common Ruby web server interface. By itself, it's just a specification and utility library, but all Ruby web servers implement this interface.
• Thin - Tiny, fast & funny HTTP server.
• Unicorn - Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix.

WebSocket

• Faye - A set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients.
• Firehose - Build realtime Ruby web applications.
• Rails Realtime - Adding Real-Time To Your RESTful Rails App.
• Sync - Real-time Rails Partials.
• Websocket-Rails - Creates a built in WebSocket server inside a Rails application with ease, and also support streaming HTTP.

Services and Apps

• AppSignal - Better monitoring for your Rails applications.
• CodeClimate - Quality & security analysis for Ruby on Rails and Javascript.
• Gemnasium - Monitor your project dependencies and alert you about updates and security vulnerabilities.
• GitHub - Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects.
• Gitlab CI - Integrate with your GitLab to run tests for your projects.
• GitLab - Open source software to collaborate on code.
• Hakiri - Ship Secure Ruby Apps.
• Honeybadger - Exception, uptime, and performance monitoring for Ruby.
• HoundCI - Review your Ruby code for style guide violations.
• Inch CI - Documentation badges for Ruby projects.
• Omniref - A comprehensive Ruby documentation site.
• PullReview - Automated code review for Ruby and Rails - from style to security.
• Travis CI.com - Take care of running your tests and deploying your private apps.
• Travis CI.org - A distributed build system for the open source community.

Resources

• GemBundle - A place to discover new Ruby Gems.
• GitHub Trending - Find what repositories the GitHub community is most excited about today.
• Green Ruby News - A feed of fresh links of the week about ruby, javascript, webdev and devops.
• Practicing Ruby - Delightful lessons for dedicated programmers.
• Ruby Weekly - A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of Ruby news and articles.
• Ruby5 - The latest news in the Ruby and Rails community.
• RubyDaily - Community driven news.
• RubyFlow - Ruby Programming Community Link Blog.
• The Ruby Toolbox - A comprehensive catalog of Ruby and Rails plug-ins, gems, tools and resources for Ruby developers with popularity ratings based on GitHub watchers and Gem downloads.

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