awesome-ruby

A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software
https://github.com/eric-erki/awesome-ruby

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Core Extensions
- Hamster - Efficient, immutable, and thread-safe collection classes for Ruby.
- Hanami::Utils - Lightweight, non-monkey-patch class utilities for Hanami and Ruby app.
- Ruby Facets - The premiere collection of general purpose method extensions and standard additions for Ruby.
- ActiveAttr - What ActiveModel left out.
- Virtus - Attributes on Steroids for Plain Old Ruby Objects.
- AttrExtras - Takes some boilerplate out of Ruby with methods like attr_initialize.
- Hashie - A collection of tools that extend Hashes and make them more useful.
- ActiveSupport - A collection of utility classes and standard library extensions.
- Finishing Moves - Small, focused, incredibly useful methods added to core Ruby classes. Includes the endlessly useful `nil_chain`.
- FastAttributes - FastAttributes adds attributes with their types to the class.
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.
- Phonelib - Ruby gem for phone validation and formatting using Google libphonenumber library data.
- Phony - Fast international phone number (E164 standard) normalizing, splitting and formatting.
- validates_zipcode - Postal code / zipcode validation for Rails, supporting 233 country codes.
- Carmen - A repository of geographic regions.
- Countries - All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as pretty little country objects.
CRM
- Fat Free CRM - An open source Ruby on Rails based customer relationship management platform.
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
- Blockchain Lite - Build your own blockchains with crypto hashes; revolutionize the world with blockchains, blockchains, blockchains one block at a time.
- Peatio - Most Advanced Cryptocurrency open-source assets exchange.
Dashboards
- Smashing - Smashing is a Sinatra based framework that lets you build beautiful dashboards. This project is the maintained spiritual successor to the Dashing framework.
- Blazer - Simple data viewer using only SQL. Output to table, chart, and maps.
- Dashing-Rails - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework for Rails.
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.
- mysql2 - A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby (binding to libmysql).
- Neography - A thin Ruby wrapper to the Neo4j Rest API.
- Redic - Lightweight Redis Client.
- redis-rb - A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.
- SQLite3 - Ruby bindings for the SQLite3 embedded database.
- SQL Server - The SQL Server adapter for ActiveRecord.
- TinyTDS - FreeTDS bindings for Ruby using DB-Library.
- ruby-pg - Ruby interface to PostgreSQL 8.3 and later.
Database Tools
- connection_pool - Generic connection pooling for Ruby, that can be used with anything, e.g. Redis, Dalli, etc.
- Database Cleaner - Database Cleaner is a set of strategies for cleaning your database in Ruby.
- Database Consistency - An easy way to check that application constraints and database constraints are in sync.
- Foreigner - Adds foreign key helpers to migrations and correctly dumps foreign keys to schema.rb.
- Large Hadron Migrator - Online MySQL schema migrations without locking the table.
- Lol DBA - Scan your models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed.
- Polo - Creates sample database snapshots to work with real world data in development.
- PgHero - Postgres insights made easy.
- Rails DB - Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner.
- Rein - Database constraints made easy for ActiveRecord.
- SchemaPlus - SchemaPlus provides a collection of enhancements and extensions to ActiveRecord
- SecondBase - Seamless second database integration for Rails. SecondBase provides support for Rails to manage dual databases by extending ActiveRecord tasks that create, migrate, and test your application.
- Seedbank - Seedbank allows you to structure your Rails seed data instead of having it all dumped into one large file.
- Seed dump - Rails 4 task to dump (parts) of your database to db/seeds.rb.
- Seed Fu - Advanced seed data handling for Rails.
- Standby - Read from standby databases for ActiveRecord (formerly Slavery).
- Upsert - Upsert on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. Transparently creates functions (UDF) for MySQL and PostgreSQL; on SQLite3, uses INSERT OR IGNORE.
- Scenic - Versioned database views for Rails.
Data Processing and ETL
- CSV Reader - A modern tabular data (line-by-line records) reader supports "classic" CSV but also CSV Numerics, CSV <3 JSON, CSV <3 YAML, tab, space or fixed width fields (FWF) and many more flavors and dialects.
- Kiba - A lightweight data processing / ETL framework for Ruby.
Data Visualization
- Chartkick - Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. Works with Rails, Sinatra and most browsers (including IE 6).
- GeoPattern - Create beautiful generative geometric background images from a string.
- LazyHighCharts - A simple and extremely flexible way to use HighCharts from ruby code. Tested on Ruby on Rails, Sinatra and Nanoc, but it should work with others too.
- 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.
- Chartkick - Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. Works with Rails, Sinatra and most browsers (including IE 6).
Date and Time Processing
- biz - Time calculations using business hours.
- 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.
- montrose - a simple library for expressing, serializing, and enumerating recurring events in Ruby
- time-lord - Adds extra functionality to the time class.
- time_diff - Calculates the difference between two time.
- timezone - Accurate current and historical timezones and transformations, with support for Geonames and Google latitude - longitude timezone lookups.
- TZinfo - Provides daylight savings aware transformations between times in different timezones.
- validates_timeliness - Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails.
- working_hours - A modern ruby gem allowing to do time calculation with working hours.
- yymmdd - Tiny DSL for idiomatic date parsing and formatting.
- ice_cube - A date recurrence library which allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying.
Debugging Tools
- Byebug - A simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2.
- Pry Byebug - Pry navigation commands via byebug.
- Seeing Is Believing - Displays the results of every line of code in your file.
- Xray - A development tool that reveals your UI's bones.
- pry-rails - Avoid repeating yourself, use pry-rails instead of copying the initializer to every rails project. This is a small gem which causes rails console to open pry. It therefore depends on pry.
- Rails Footnotes - Rails footnotes displays footnotes in your application for easy debugging, such as sessions, request parameters, cookies, filter chain, routes, queries, etc.
- did_you_mean - Adds class, method & attribute suggestions to error messages.
Decorators
- Draper - Draper adds an object-oriented layer of presentation logic to your Rails application.
- ShowFor - Quickly show a model information with I18n features. Like form_for for displaying model data.
DevOps Tools
- Lita - ChatOps for Ruby: A pluggable chat bot framework usable with any chat service.
- Backup - Provides an elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems.
- Blender - A modular system orchestration framework with pluggable driver and host discovery.
- BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
- Centurion - A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets.
- Chef - A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
- Deployinator - Deployinator is a deployment framework extracted from Etsy.
- Itamae - Simple and lightweight configuration management tool inspired by Chef.
- Kochiku - Kochiku is a distributed platform for test automation.
- 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.
- Request-log-analyzer - Create reports based on your log files. Supports Rails, Apache, MySQL, Delayed::Job, and other formats.
- Rubber - The rubber plugin enables relatively complex multi-instance deployments of RubyOnRails applications to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
- SSHKey - SSH private and public key generator in pure Ruby (RSA & DSA).
- Sunzi - Server provisioning utility for minimalists
- Ruby-LXC - Native ruby binding for Linux containers.
- Vagrant - Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.
- Einhorn - Einhorn will open one or more shared sockets and run multiple copies of your process. You can seamlessly reload your code, dynamically reconfigure Einhorn, and more.
Diff
- Diffy - Easy Diffing With Ruby.
- gemdiff - Find source repositories for gems. Open, compare, and update outdated gem versions.
- JsonCompare - Returns the difference between two JSON files.
Documentation
- Annotate - Add a comment documenting the current schema to the top or bottom of each of your ActiveRecord models.
- Apipie - Rails API documentation and display tool using Ruby syntax.
- Doctor - Doctor is a Documentation Server for all your docs in github.
- Documentation - A Rails engine to provider the ability to add documentation to a Rails application.
- GitHub Changelog Generator - Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
- Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
- grape-swagger - Add swagger compliant documentation to your Grape API.
- Hanna - An RDoc formatter built with simplicity, beauty and ease of browsing in mind.
- Hologram - A markdown based documentation system for style guides. It parses comments in your CSS and helps you turn them into a beautiful style guide.
- 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.
- rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec.
- GitHub Changelog Generator - Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
- Hanna - An RDoc formatter built with simplicity, beauty and ease of browsing in mind.
- YARD - YARD enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily.
Ebook
- 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.
- Bookshop - Bookshop is a an open-source agile book development and publishing framework for authors, editors.
E-Commerce and Payments
- Active Merchant - A simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify.
- Braintree - Braintree Ruby bindings.
- Conekta - Conekta Ruby bindings.
- credit_card_validations - A ruby gem for validating credit card numbers, generating valid numbers, Luhn checks.
- Koudoku - Robust subscription support for Ruby on Rails apps using Stripe, including out-of-the-box pricing pages, payment pages, and subscription management.
- Payola - Drop-in Rails engine for accepting payments with Stripe.
- Piggybak - Modular, Extensible open-source ecommerce solution for Ruby on Rails.
- ROR Ecommerce - A Rails e-commerce platform.
- Solidus - An open source, eCommerce application for high volume retailers.
- Spree - Spree is a complete open source e-commerce solution for Ruby on Rails.
- SquareConnect - Square's SDK for payments and other Square APIs.
- stripe-ruby - Stripe Ruby bindings.
- Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for Ruby.
- Payola - Drop-in Rails engine for accepting payments with Stripe.
- credit_card_validations - A ruby gem for validating credit card numbers, generating valid numbers, Luhn checks.
Email
- Gibbon - API wrapper for the Mailchimp e-mail marketing platform.
- Griddler - Simplify receiving email in Rails.
- 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.
- Mailman - An incoming mail processing microframework in Ruby.
- Maily - A Rails Engine to manage, test and navigate through all your email templates of your app, being able to preview them directly in your browser.
- MidiSmtpServer - The highly customizable ruby SMTP-Service library with builtin support for AUTH and SSL/STARTTLS, 8BITMIME and SMTPUTF8, IPv4 and IPv6 and more.
- Pony - The express way to send mail from Ruby.
- premailer-rails - CSS styled emails without the hassle.
- Roadie - Roadie tries to make sending HTML emails a little less painful by inlining stylesheets and rewriting relative URLs for you inside your emails.
- Sup - A curses threads-with-tags style email client.
- Postal - A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail.
- MailForm - Send e-mail straight from forms in Rails with I18n, validations, attachments and request information.
- Markerb - Allows you to render multipart e-mails from a single template written in Markdown.
Encryption
- Themis - crypto library for painless data security, providing symmetric and asymmetric encryption, secure sockets with forward secrecy, for mobile and server platforms.
- bcrypt-ruby - bcrypt-ruby is a Ruby binding for the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm.
- Sym - A time-saving symmetric encryption gem based on OpenSSL that uses 256bit (password-encrypted) keys. Read the key from STDIN, a file, ENV or, on a Mac: OS-X Keychain.
- bcrypt-ruby - bcrypt-ruby is a Ruby binding for the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm.
- Symmetric Encryption - Transparently encrypt ActiveRecord, Mongoid, and MongoMapper attributes. Encrypt passwords in configuration files. Encrypt entire files at rest.
Environment Management
- 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.
- 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.
- ruby-install - Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev or MRuby.
- Uru - Uru is a lightweight, multi-platform command line tool that helps you use the multiple rubies on your 32/64-bit Linux, OS X, or Windows systems.
- 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.
Error Handling
- Honeybadger - Exception, uptime, and performance monitoring for Ruby.
- Airbrake - The official Airbrake library for Ruby on Rails (and other Rack based frameworks).
- Bugsnag - Error monitoring for Rails, Sinatra, Rack, and plain Ruby apps.
- Errbit - The open source, self-hosted error catcher.
- Exception Handler - Custom error pages.
- 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.
- Better Errors - Better error page for Rack apps.
Feature Flippers and A/B Testing
- Motorhead - A Rails Engine framework that helps safe and rapid feature prototyping.
- Rollout - Feature flippers.
- Split - Rack Based AB testing framework.
- Vanity - an A/B testing framework for Rails that is datastore agnostic.
- flipper - Feature flipping for ANYTHING. Make turning features on/off so easy that everyone does it. Whatever your data store, throughput, or experience.
File System Listener
- Guard - A command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications.
- Guard::LiveReload - Automatically reload your browser when 'view' files are modified.
- Listen - The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes.
- Rerun - Restarts an app when the filesystem changes. Uses growl and FSEventStream if on OS X.
File Upload
- attache - Standalone image and file server to decouple your app from file management concerns.
- 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. Deprecated as of May 14, 2018.
- rack-secure-upload - Upload files securely.
- Refile - A modern file upload library for Ruby applications, Refile is an attempt by CarrierWave's original author to fix the design mistakes and overengineering in CarrierWave.
- Shrine - Toolkit for handling file uploads in Ruby.
Form Builder
- Abracadabra - The gem that swaps out text with a fully-compliant Rails form in one click.
- Cocoon - Dynamic nested forms using jQuery made easy; works with formtastic, simple_form or default forms.

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Country Data

CRM

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

Dashboards

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Database Tools

Data Processing and ETL

Data Visualization

Date and Time Processing

Debugging Tools

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DevOps Tools

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Documentation

Ebook

E-Commerce and Payments

Email

Encryption

Environment Management

Error Handling

Feature Flippers and A/B Testing

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File Upload

Form Builder