awesome-ruby

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

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Form Builder
- Rapidfire - Making dynamic surveys should be easy!
- Formtastic - A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.
- Rapidfire - Making dynamic surveys should be easy!
- Simple Form - Rails forms made easy.
- Rails Bootstrap Forms - Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms with Twitter Bootstrap 3+.
- Reform - Gives you a form object with validations and nested setup of models. It is completely framework-agnostic and doesn't care about your database.
Game Development
- Yeah - Practical Ruby video game framework.
Gem Generators
- Gemsmith - A command line interface for smithing new Ruby gems.
- Hoe - Hoe is a Rake/RubyGems helper for project Rakefiles.
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.
- geoip - Searches a GeoIP database for a given host or IP address, and returns information about the country where the IP address is allocated, and the city, ISP and other information.
- Geokit - Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations.
- Google Maps for Rails - Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps.
- rgeo - Geospatial data library. Spatial data types, geometric and spherical calculations, and WKT/WKB serialization.
Git Tools
- Git Cop - Enforces consistent Git commits.
- ginatra - A web frontend for Git repositories.
- git-auto-bisect - Find the commit that broke master.
- git_reflow - An automated quality control workflow for Agile teams.
- 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.
- Overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager.
- Rugged - Ruby bindings to libgit2.
- Overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager.
GraphQL
- graphql-batch
- graphql-client - A library for declaring, composing and executing GraphQL queries.
- graphql-guard - A simple field-level authorization.
- graphql-ruby - Ruby implementation of GraphQL.
GUI
- RubyGnome2 - Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2.0 development environment.
- qtbindings - Allows the QT Gui toolkit to be used from Ruby.
- Shoes - Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, and Linux super simple.
- 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.
- Oga - An XML/HTML parser written in Ruby. Oga does not require system libraries such as libxml, making it easier and faster to install on various platforms.
- Ox - A fast XML parser and Object marshaller.
- ROXML - Custom mapping and bidirectional marshalling between Ruby and XML using annotation-style class methods, via Nokogiri or LibXML.
- HappyMapper - Object to XML mapping library, using Nokogiri.
- HTML::Pipeline - HTML processing filters and utilities.
HTTP Clients and tools
- HTTPX - acknowledges the ease-of-use of the [http](https://github.com/httprb/http) gem API (itself inspired by python requests library) which aims at reusing the same facade, extending it for the use cases which the http gem doesn't support.
- 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.
- Device Detector - A precise and fast user agent parser and device detector, backed by the largest and most up-to-date user agent database.
- 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!
- Http-2 - Pure Ruby implementation of HTTP/2 protocol
- 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.
- Sniffer
- Typhoeus - Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
Image Processing
- MiniMagick - A ruby wrapper for ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick command line.
- Phasion - Ruby wrapper around pHash, the perceptual hash library for detecting duplicate multimedia files.
- PSD.rb - Parse Photoshop files in Ruby with ease.
- RMagick - RMagick is an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick.
- ruby-vips - A binding for the libvips image processing library.
- Skeptick - Skeptick is an all-purpose DSL for building and running ImageMagick commands.
- ruby-vips - A binding for the libvips image processing library.
Implementations/Compilers
- JRuby - A Java implementation of the Ruby language.
- MRuby - Lightweight Ruby. Can be linked and embedded in your application.
- Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler.
- Rubinius - An implementation of the Ruby programming language. Rubinius includes a bytecode virtual machine, Ruby syntax parser, bytecode compiler, generational garbage collector, just-in-time (JIT) native machine code compiler, and Ruby Core and Standard libraries.
- TruffleRuby - A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language. Built on the GraalVM by Oracle Labs.
Internationalization
- FastGettext - Ruby internationalization tool with less memory, simple, clean namespace and threadsafe.
- Globalize - Globalize builds on the I18n API in Ruby on Rails to add model translations to ActiveRecord models.
- i18n-tasks - Manage missing and unused translations with the awesome power of static analysis.
- i18n - Ruby Internationalization and localization solution.
- rails-i18n - Repository for collecting Locale data for Rails I18n as well as other interesting, Rails related I18n stuff.
- Termit - Translations with speech synthesis in your terminal.
- Tolk - A web interface for doing i18n translations packaged as a Rails engine.
- 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.
- r18n - Advanced i18n library for Rails, Sinatra, desktop apps, models, works well with complex languages like Russian.
- i18n - Ruby Internationalization and localization solution.
IRB
- Clipboard - Access to the system clipboard on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
- Hirb - A mini view framework for console/irb that's easy to use, even while under its influence. Console goodies include a no-wrap table, auto-pager, tree and menu.
- irbtools - Improvements for Ruby's IRB.
- Looksee - A tool for illustrating the ancestry and method lookup path of objects. Handy for exploring unfamiliar codebases.
- Pry - A powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby.
- rib - A lightweight and extensible IRB replacement.
- rib - A lightweight and extensible IRB replacement.
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.
- Syslogger - A drop-in replacement for the standard Logger Ruby library, that logs to the syslog instead of a log file.
- Timber - Simple structured logging with context.
- Yell - Your Extensible Logging Library.
- Semantic Logger - Scalable, next generation enterprise logging for Ruby.
- Timber - Simple structured logging with context.
Machine Learning
- Awesome Machine Learning with Ruby - A Curated List of Ruby Machine Learning Links and Resources.
- AI4R - Algorithms covering several Artificial intelligence fields.
- 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-fann - Ruby library for interfacing with FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network).
- rumale - A machine learninig library with interfaces similar to Scikit-Learn.
- weka - Machine learning and data mining algorithms for JRuby.
- PredictionIO Ruby SDK - The PredictionIO Ruby SDK provides a convenient API to quickly record your users' behavior and retrieve personalized predictions for them.
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.
- word-to-markdown - Gem to convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown.
Measurements
- Measured - Wrapper objects which encapsulate measurements and their associated units in Ruby.
- Ruby Units - Provides classes and methods to perform unit math and conversions.
Mobile Development
- fastlane - Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow.
- dryrun - Try any Android library on your smartphone directly from the command line.
- 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 full-fledged native iOS and OS X applications for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.
- Ruby Push Notifications - iOS, Android and Windows Phone Push notifications made easy.
- Rpush - The push notification service for Ruby which supports Apple Push Notification Service, Google Cloud Messaging, Amazon Device Messaging and Windows Phone Push Notification Service.
- webpush - Encryption Utilities for Web Push protocol
- RubyMotion - A revolutionary toolchain that lets you quickly develop and test full-fledged native iOS and OS X applications for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.
Money
- eu_central_bank - A gem that calculates the exchange rate using published rates from European Central Bank.
- Monetize - A library for converting various objects into Money objects.
- Money - A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.
Music and Sound
- Coltrane - A music theory library with a command-line interface.
- Maestro - A Slack-Powered music bot for Spotify
- play ► - Your company's dj.
- Sonic Pi - A live coding synth for everyone originally designed to support computing and music lessons.
Natural Language Processing
- Awesome NLP with Ruby - Awesome List for Practical Natural Language Processing done in Ruby.
- Parslet - A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion.
- pocketsphinx-ruby - Ruby speech recognition with Pocketsphinx.
- Pragmatic Segmenter - Pragmatic Segmenter is a rule-based sentence boundary detection gem that works out-of-the-box across many languages.
- Ruby Natural Language Processing Resources - Collection of links to Ruby Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries, tools and software.
- Sentimental - Simple sentiment analysis with Ruby.
- Text - A collection of text algorithms including Levenshtein distance, Metaphone, Soundex 2, Porter stemming & White similarity.
- Treat - Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby.
- Treetop - PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) parser.
- Words Counted - A highly customisable Ruby text analyser and word counter.
- Parslet - A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion.
Navigation
- active_link_to - View helper to manage "active" state of a link.
- Breadcrumbs on Rails - A simple Ruby on Rails plugin for creating and managing a breadcrumb navigation for a Rails project.
- Gretel - A Ruby on Rails plugin that makes it easy yet flexible to create breadcrumbs.
- loaf - Manages and displays breadcrumb trails in Rails app - lean & mean.
- Simple Navigation - A ruby gem for creating navigation (html list, link list or breadcrumbs with multiple levels) for your Rails 2, 3 & 4, Sinatra or Padrino.
- loaf - Manages and displays breadcrumb trails in Rails app - lean & mean.
Networking
- Dnsruby - A pure Ruby DNS client library which implements a stub resolver. It aims to comply with all DNS RFCs.
- RubyDNS - A high-performance DNS server which can be easily integrated into other projects or used as a stand-alone daemon.
- RubyDNS - A high-performance DNS server which can be easily integrated into other projects or used as a stand-alone daemon.
Optimizations
- bootsnap - Boot large Ruby/Rails apps faster.
- fast_blank - Provides a C-optimized method for determining if a string is blank.
- yajl-ruby - A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl).
ORM/ODM
- DataMapper - ORM which works well with legacy databases. Last release (1.2.0) was on 13 October 2011.
- Hanami::Model - A lean Repository-pattern based ORM framework for Hanami and modern Ruby applications.
- 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.
- Neo4j.rb - A Neo4j OGM (Object-Graph-Mapper) for use in Ruby on Rails and Rack frameworks heavily inspired by ActiveRecord.
- NoBrainer - A RethinkDB ORM for Ruby
- Ohm - Object-hash mapping library for Redis.
- Perpetuity - Persistence gem for Ruby objects using the Data Mapper pattern.
- Redis-Objects - Redis Objects provides a Rubyish interface to Redis, by mapping Redis data types to Ruby objects, via a thin layer over the redis gem.
- ROM - Ruby Object Mapper (ROM) is an experimental Ruby library with the goal to provide powerful object mapping capabilities without limiting the full power of your datastore.
- Sequel - Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby.
- Neo4j.rb - A Neo4j OGM (Object-Graph-Mapper) for use in Ruby on Rails and Rack frameworks heavily inspired by ActiveRecord.
- ActiveRecord - Object-relational mapping in Rails.
- NoBrainer - A RethinkDB ORM for Ruby
ORM/ODM Extensions
- ActsAsParanoid - ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.
- Audited - Audited is an ORM extension for ActiveRecord & MongoMapper that logs all changes to your models.
- Discard - A simple ActiveRecord mixin to add conventions for flagging records as discarded.
- Espinita - Audit activerecord models like a boss.
- Logidze - Database changes log for Rails.
- marginalia - Attach comments to your ActiveRecord queries. By default, it adds the application, controller, and action names as a comment at the end of each query.
- mongoid-history - Multi-user non-linear history tracking, auditing, undo, redo for mongoid.
- PermenantRecords - Soft-delete your ActiveRecord records, like an explicit version of ActsAsParanoid.
- ActiveImporter - Define importers that load tabular data from spreadsheets or CSV files into any ActiveRecord-like ORM.
- ActiveRecord Import - a library for bulk inserting data using ActiveRecord.
- bulk_insert - A little ActiveRecord extension for helping to insert lots of rows in a single insert statement.
- data_miner - Download, pull out of a ZIP/TAR/GZ/BZ2 archive, parse, correct, and import XLS, ODS, XML, CSV, HTML, etc. into your ActiveRecord models.
- ferry - A ruby gem for easy data transfer.
- ActiveRecord::Turntable - A database sharding extension for ActiveRecord.
- ActiveValidators - An exhaustive collection of off-the-shelf and tested ActiveModel/ActiveRecord validations.
- DeepPluck - Allow you to pluck attributes from nested associations without loading a bunch of records.
- Enumerize - Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid/MongoMapper support.
- Goldiloader - Automatic ActiveRecord eager loading.
- mini_record - ActiveRecord meets DataMapper, with MiniRecord you are be able to write schema inside your models.
- Acts As Tennant - Add multi-tenancy to a Rails app through a shared database strategy.
- Apartment - Multi-tenancy for Rails and ActiveRecord.
- Milia - Non-invasive multi-tenancy for Rails which supports Devise authentication out of the box.
- Acts As Commentable - Provides a single Comment model that can be attached to any model(s) within your app.
- Acts As Commentable with Threading - Similar to acts_as_commentable; however, utilizes awesome_nested_set to provide threaded comments.
- acts_as_follower - Allow any ActiveRecord model to follow any other model.
- ActiveRecord Reputation System - An Active Record Reputation System for Rails.
- ActsAsTaggableOn - A tagging plugin for ActiveRecord that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
- Acts As Votable - Allow any ActiveRecord model to be voted on, like/dislike, upvote/downvote, etc.
- Merit - Adds reputation behavior to Rails apps in the form of Badges, Points, and Rankings for ActiveRecord or Mongoid.
- Simple Feed - Fast and highly scalable read-optimized social activity feed library in pure Ruby, backed by Redis.
- Unread - Manage read/unread status of ActiveRecord objects - and it's fast.
- ranked-model - A modern row sorting library for ActiveRecord. It uses ARel aggressively and is better optimized than most other libraries.
- ActsAsTree - Extends ActiveRecord to add simple support for organizing items into parent–children relationships.
- Ancestry - Organise ActiveRecord model into a tree structure using a variation on the materialised path pattern.
- Awesome Nested Set - Awesome Nested Set is an implementation of the nested set pattern for ActiveRecord models.
- Mongoid Tree - A tree structure for Mongoid documents using the materialized path pattern.
- PaperTrail - Track changes to your ActiveRecord models' data for auditing or versioning.
- PublicActivity - Provides easy activity tracking for your ActiveRecord, Mongoid 3 and MongoMapper models in Rails 3 and 4. Similar to Github's Public Activity.
- ranked-model - A modern row sorting library for ActiveRecord. It uses ARel aggressively and is better optimized than most other libraries.

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IRB

Logging

Machine Learning

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Measurements

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Money

Music and Sound

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Navigation

Networking

Optimizations

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