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awesome-ruby

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

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  • Processes

    • childprocess - Cross-platform ruby library for managing child processes.
    • childprocess - Cross-platform ruby library for managing child processes.

  • Process Management and Monitoring

    • Bluepill - Simple process monitoring tool.
    • Eye - Process monitoring tool. Inspired from Bluepill and God.
    • Foreman - Manage Procfile-based applications.
    • God - An easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby.
    • Health Monitor Rails - A mountable Rails plug-in to check health of services (Database, Cache, Sidekiq, Redis, e.t.c.) used by the Rails app.
    • Procodile - Run processes in the background (and foreground) on Mac & Linux from a Procfile.
    • RedisWebManager - Web interface that allows you to manage easily your Redis instance (see keys, memory used, connected client, etc...).

  • Profiler and Optimization

    • batch-loader
    • benchmark-ips - Provides iteration per second benchmarking for Ruby.
    • bullet - Help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading.
    • Peek - Visual status bar showing Rails performance.
    • rack-mini-profiler - Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.
    • rbspy - Sampling profiler for any Ruby process.
    • ruby-prof - A code profiler for MRI rubies.
    • stackprof - A sampling call-stack profiler for ruby 2.1+.
    • Derailed Benchmarks - A series of things you can use to benchmark any Rack based app.
    • test-prof - Ruby Tests Profiling Toolbox
    • Rbkit - profiler for Ruby. With a GUI.
    • Derailed Benchmarks - A series of things you can use to benchmark any Rack based app.
    • Rbkit - profiler for Ruby. With a GUI.
    • test-prof - Ruby Tests Profiling Toolbox

  • QR

    • RQRCode - RQRCode is a library for creating and rendering QR codes into various formats.

  • Queues and Messaging

    • RocketJob - Enterprise Batch Processing System focused on performance, scalability, reliability, and visibility of every job in the system. Outgrown existing solutions? Or, start small and scale up later.
    • Backburner - Backburner is a beanstalkd-powered job queue that can handle a very high volume of jobs.
    • Bunny - Bunny is a popular, easy to use, well-maintained Ruby client for RabbitMQ (3.3+).
    • Delayed::Job - Database backed asynchronous priority queue.
    • GoodJob - GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.
    • Gush - A parallel runner for complex workflows using only Redis and Sidekiq.
    • JobIteration - An ActiveJob extension to make long-running jobs interruptible and resumable.
    • Karafka - Framework used to simplify Apache Kafka (a distributed streaming platform) based Ruby applications development.
    • Lowkiq - Ordered processing of background jobs for cases where Sidekiq can't help.
    • March Hare - Idiomatic, fast and well-maintained JRuby client for RabbitMQ.
    • Resque - A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs.
    • SidekiqIteration - A Sidekiq extension to make long-running jobs interruptible and resumable.
    • Sneakers - A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ.
    • Sucker Punch - A single process background processing library using Celluloid. Aimed to be Sidekiq's little brother.
    • Shoryuken - A super efficient AWS SQS thread based message processor for Ruby.
    • Que - A Ruby job queue that uses PostgreSQL's advisory locks for speed and reliability.
    • Que - A Ruby job queue that uses PostgreSQL's advisory locks for speed and reliability.
    • RocketJob - Enterprise Batch Processing System focused on performance, scalability, reliability, and visibility of every job in the system. Outgrown existing solutions? Or, start small and scale up later.
    • Shoryuken - A super efficient AWS SQS thread based message processor for Ruby.
    • 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.

  • Rails Application Generators

    • Bootstrappers - Bootstrappers generates a base Rails app using Bootstrap template and other goodies.
    • Hobo - The web app builder for Rails.
    • orats - Opinionated rails application templates.
    • Rails Composer - The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps.
    • 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.
    • Arli - Arli is the CLI tool for searching, installing, and packaging Arduino libraries with a project using a YAML-based Arlifile. It's a "Bundler for Arduino Development".
    • 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.
    • Simple rss - A simple, flexible, extensible, and liberal RSS and Atom reader.
    • Stringer - A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
    • feedparser - A feed parser and normalizer (Atom, RSS, JSON, etc) library.
    • feedparser - A feed parser and normalizer (Atom, RSS, JSON, etc) library.
    • Stringer - A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

  • Scheduling

    • minicron - A system to manage and monitor cron jobs.
    • que-scheduler - A lightweight cron scheduler for the async job worker Que.
    • 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).
    • ruby-clock - A job scheduler which runs jobs each in their own thread in a persistent process.
    • Sidekiq-Cron - A scheduling add-on for Sidekiq.
    • Simple Scheduler - An enhancement for Heroku Scheduler + Sidekiq for scheduling jobs at specific times with a readable YML file.
    • Whenever - A Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.
    • Sidekiq-Cron - A scheduling add-on for Sidekiq.

  • Scientific

    • Red Data Tools - Data processing tools for Ruby.
    • PyCall - Calling Python functions from the Ruby language.
    • ruby-opencv - An OpenCV wrapper for Ruby.
    • classifier-reborn - An active fork of Classifier, and general module to allow Bayesian and other types of classifications.
    • Daru::View - A library for easy and interactive plotting on Jupyter Notebooks and web applications.
    • Rgl - A framework for graph data structures and algorithms.
    • NMatrix - Fast numerical linear algebra library for Ruby.
    • Numo::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.
    • IRuby - A Ruby kernel for Jupyter.
    • 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.
    • minimization - Minimization algorithms on pure Ruby.
    • BioRuby - Library for developing bioinformatics software.
    • bloomfilter-rb - BloomFilter(s) in Ruby: Native counting filter + Redis counting/non-counting filters.
    • decisiontree - A ruby library which implements ID3 (information gain) algorithm for decision tree learning.
    • algorithms - Library with documentation on when to use a particular structure/algorithm.
    • jaro_winkler - Ruby & C implementation of Jaro-Winkler distance algorithm which supports UTF-8 string.
    • primes-utils - A Rubygem which provides a suite of extremely fast utility methods for testing and generating primes.
    • Roots - A Rubygem which provides utilities to find all the nth roots of real and complex values.
    • PyCall - Calling Python functions from the Ruby language.
    • daru - A library for storage, analysis, manipulation and visualization of data in pure Ruby.
    • chewy - High-level Elasticsearch Ruby framework based on the official elasticsearch-ruby client.
    • elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch.
    • elastics - Simple ElasticSearch client with support for migrations and ActiveRecord integration.
    • 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.
    • Rroonga - The Ruby bindings of Groonga.
    • scoped_search - Adds a scope supporting search queries and autocompletion against existing fields on ActiveRecord models and associations.
    • SearchCop - Extends your ActiveRecord models to support fulltext search engine like queries via simple query strings and hash-based queries.
    • 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.
    • Sunspot - A Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine.
    • textacular - Exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular extends ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!
    • Thinking Sphinx - A library for connecting ActiveRecord to the Sphinx full-text search tool.
    • typesense-ruby - Ruby client for Typesense, a fast, typo-tolerant search engine.
    • Mongoid Search - Simple full text search implementation for Mongoid.
    • ransack - Object-based searching.
    • Mongoid Search - Simple full text search implementation for Mongoid.

  • Security

    • BeEF - BeEF is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser.
    • Rack::Protection - Rack middleware for protecting against typical Web attacks.
    • bundler-audit - Patch-level security verification for Bundler.
    • Fingerprinter - CMS/LMS/Library etc versions fingerprinter.
    • haiti - Hash type identifier (CLI & lib).
    • Metasploit - World's most used penetration testing software.
    • Pipal - Password analyser and statistics generator
    • Rack::Attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling abusive requests.
    • Ronin - A Ruby platform for vulnerability research and exploit development.
    • WhatWeb - Website Fingerprinter.
    • Rack::Protection - Rack middleware for protecting against typical Web attacks.
    • SecureHeaders - Automatically apply several headers that are related to security, including: Content Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), X-Frame-Options (XFO), X-XSS-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Download-Options & X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies.
    • BeEF - BeEF is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser.
    • Rack::Attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling abusive requests.
    • SecureHeaders - Automatically apply several headers that are related to security, including: Content Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), X-Frame-Options (XFO), X-XSS-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Download-Options & X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies.
    • WPscan - WordPress vulnerability scanner.

  • SEO

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

  • Serverless

    • FaaStRuby - Serverless Software Development Platform for Ruby and Crystal developers.
    • 🐑 Lamby - Simple Rails & AWS Lambda Integration using Rack
    • Jets - A Ruby Serverless Framework to create and deploy serverless microservices with ease, and to seamlessly glue AWS services.
    • Jets - A Ruby Serverless Framework to create and deploy serverless microservices with ease, and to seamlessly glue AWS services.

  • Services and Apps

    • AppSignal - Better monitoring for your Rails applications.
    • GitHub - Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects.
    • Inch CI - Documentation badges for Ruby projects.
    • Sider - Automated Code Review with GitHub PR. Monitoring Style Violations, Quality, Security, Dependencies.
    • CodeClimate - Quality & security analysis for Ruby on Rails and Javascript.
    • OctoLinker - Navigate through projects on GitHub.com efficiently with the OctoLinker browser extension.
    • GitHub - Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects.
    • OctoLinker - Navigate through projects on GitHub.com efficiently with the OctoLinker browser extension.

  • Social Networking

    • Decidim - free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
    • diaspora* - A privacy aware, distributed, open source social network.
    • Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
    • Mailboxer - A private message system for Rails applications.
    • Mastodon - A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server.
    • Retrospring - A social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle.
    • Social Shares - A gem to check how many times url was shared in social networks.
    • Thredded - Rails 4.2+ forums/messageboards engine. Its goal is to be as simple and feature rich as possible.

  • Spreadsheets and Documents

    • CAXLSX - A community maintained excel xlsx generation library. [AXLSX](https://github.com/randym/axlsx) - The original.
    • Docsplit - Gem to convert Microsoft Word (and other) documents into images, pdf, pages or text.
    • Roo - Implements read access for all spreadsheet types and read/write access for Google spreadsheets.
    • spreadsheet_architect - Spreadsheet Architect is a library that allows you to create XLSX, ODS, or CSV spreadsheets super easily from ActiveRecord relations, plain Ruby objects, or tabular data.

  • State Machines

    • AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, Rails Active Record, Mongoid).
    • MicroMachine - A minimal finite state machine implementation in less than 50 lines of code.
    • simple_states - A super-slim statemachine-like support library.
    • Statesman - A statesmanlike state machine library.
    • state_machines - Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class.
    • transitions - A ruby state machine implementation.
    • Workflow - A finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling and interacting with what we tend to refer to as 'workflow'.
    • FiniteMachine - A plain Ruby state machine with a straightforward and expressive syntax.
    • FiniteMachine - A plain Ruby state machine with a straightforward and expressive syntax.

  • Static Site Generation

    • 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.
    • webgen - webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator.
    • Bridgetown - A Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator for the modern Jamstack era.
    • High Voltage - Easily include static pages in your Rails app.
    • Awesome Jekyll - A collection of awesome Jekyll tools, plugins, themes, guides and much more.
    • Photish - Generate a highly configurable static website from a photo collection.
    • webgen - webgen is a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator.

  • 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

    • Test::Unit - Test::Unit is a xUnit family unit testing framework for Ruby.
    • Fabrication - A simple and powerful object generation library.
    • Selenium WebDriver - Ruby bindings for WebDriver.
    • RSpec - Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby.
    • Emoji-RSpec - Custom Emoji Formatters for RSpec.
    • Fuubar - The instafailing RSpec progress bar formatter.
    • Nyan Cat - Nyan Cat inspired RSpec formatter!
    • Aruba - Testing command line applications with cucumber and rspec.
    • Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications.
    • Cutest - Isolated tests in Ruby.
    • Fix - Specing framework for Ruby.
    • Howitzer - Ruby based framework for acceptance testing
    • Mocha - Mocha is a mocking and stubbing library for Ruby.
    • 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.
    • TestBench - TestBench is a principled test framework for Ruby and MRuby aiming to offer precisely what is needed to test well-designed code effectively and easily.
    • factory_bot - A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.
    • Fake Person - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK.
    • ffaker - A faster Faker, generates dummy data, rewrite of faker.
    • Forgery - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.
    • ActiveMocker - Generate mocks from ActiveRecord models for unit tests that run fast because they don’t need to load Rails or a database.
    • DnsMock - Ruby DNS mock. Mimic any DNS records for your test environment and even more.
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Ruby 793 C 25 C++ 8 JavaScript 8 Shell 8 HTML 5 TypeScript 2 SCSS 2 Rust 2 Go 1
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