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
  • Robotics
  • RSS
  • Scheduling
  • 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
• 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
• 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

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. It looks especially great on TVs.
• 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

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
• Chronic - A natural language date/time parser written in pure Ruby
• groupdate - The simplest way to group temporal data in ActiveRecord, arrays and hashes
• time-lord - Adds extra functionality to the time class
• time_diff - Calculates the difference between two time
• 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.

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
• Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for Ruby
• Piggybak - Modular, Extensible open-source ecommerce solution for Ruby on Rails
• ROR Ecommerce
• Shoppe - A Rails-based e-commerce platform which allows you to easily introduce a catalogue-based store into your Rails 4 applications
• Spree
• 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

• QtRuby - Qt4 binding for ruby
• RubyGnome2
• Shoes

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.

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

Search

• attr_searchable - Search engine like fulltext query support for ActiveRecord
• elasticsearch-ruby
• 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

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
  • 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. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, an array with all the links, all the images in it, etc.
• Upton - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)
• 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. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser.
• 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. 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
• 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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