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# Awesome Rails

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source rails related resources inspired by Awesome PHP.



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- [Awesome Rails](#awesome-rails)

	- [Package Management](#package-management)

	- [Templating](#templating)

	- [Static Pages](#static-pages)

	- [Dashboards](#dashboards)

	- [HTTP](#http)

	- [Crawlers and Scrapers](#crawlers-and-scrapers)

	- [Email](#email)

	- [ETL](#etl)

	- [Files](#files)

	- [Imagery](#imagery)

	- [Testing](#testing)

	- [Documentation](#documentation)

	- [Security](#security)

	- [Code Analysis](#code-analysis)

	- [Assets Management](#assets-management)

	- [ActiveRecord](#activerecord)

	- [Geolocation](#geolocation)

	- [Search](#search)

	- [Date and Time](#date-and-time)

	- [Feature Toggling](#feature-toggling)

	- [Logging](#logging)

	- [SEO](#seo)

	- [Meta](#meta)

	- [PDF](#pdf)

	- [Performance](#performance)

	- [Analytics](#analytics)

	- [Optimization](#optimization)

	- [Production](#production)

	- [Command Line](#command-line)

	- [Authentication](#authentication)

	- [Authorization](#authorization)

	- [Text and Numbers](#text-and-numbers)

	- [Filtering and Validation](#filtering-and-validation)

	- [REST and API](#rest-and-api)

	- [Caching](#caching)

	- [Data Structure and Storage](#data-structure-and-storage)

	- [Notifications](#notifications)

	- [Deployment](#deployment)

	- [Parser](#parser)

	- [Third Party APIs](#third-party-apis)

	- [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)

	- [Development Software](#development-software)

	- [WYSIWIG](#wysiwig)

	- [Background Job](#background-job)

	- [Visual Goodies](#visual-goodies)

	- [Starters/Boilerplates](#startersboilerplates)

- [Resources](#resources)

	- [Websites](#websites)

	- [Books](#books)

	- [Web Reading](#web-reading)

	- [Rails Reading](#rails-reading)

- [Credits](#credits)

- [Contributing](#contributing)



## Package Management

*Libraries for package and dependency management.*



* [Bundler](http://bundler.io/) - The best way to manage your application's dependencies.

* [Bower Rails](https://github.com/42dev/bower-rails) - A Bower support for Rails projects.



## Templating

*Libraries and tools for templating.*



* [Rails Composer](https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer) - The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps.

* [Rails Apps Composer](https://github.com/RailsApps/rails_apps_composer) - Build your own application template.



## Static Pages

*Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.*



* [HighVoltage](https://github.com/thoughtbot/high_voltage) - Rails engine for static pages.

* [Refinery CMS](http://refinerycms.com/) - Rails-based CMS.

* [Camaleon CMS](http://camaleon.tuzitio.com/) - Rails-based CMS.



## Dashboards



* [Dashing](http://shopify.github.io/dashing/) - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework.

* [Tasseo](https://github.com/obfuscurity/tasseo) - Live dashboard for Graphite



## HTTP

*Libraries for working with HTTP.*



* [Faraday](https://github.com/lostisland/faraday) - flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.

* [Typhoeus](https://github.com/typhoeus/typhoeus) - wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.

* [Whois](https://github.com/weppos/whois) - An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser



## Crawlers and Scrapers

*Libraries for crawling/scraping the Web.*



* [Wombat](https://github.com/felipecsl/wombat) - Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.



## Email

*Libraries for sending and parsing email.*



* [MailCheck](https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck) - Reduce user-misspelled email addresses in your forms.



## ETL

*Data-processing libraries.*



* [Kiba](https://github.com/thbar/kiba) - the ETL framework for Ruby.



## Files

*Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.*



* [MimeMagic](https://github.com/minad/mimemagic) - A MIME detection library.

* [Exporting CSV & Excel](http://railscasts.com/episodes/362-exporting-csv-and-excel) - RailsCast.

* [Sitemap Generator](https://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator) - A sitemap generation library.



## Imagery

*Libraries for manipulating images.*



* [MiniMagick](https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick) - An image manipulation library.

* [CarrierWave::BombShelter](https://github.com/DarthSim/carrierwave-bombshelter) - is a module which protects your uploaders from image bombs. It checks pixel dimensions of uploaded image before ImageMagick touches it.



## Testing

*Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*



* [RSpec](http://rspec.info/) - A testing tool for the Ruby programming language.



## Documentation

*Libraries for generating project documentation.*



* [SAMI](https://github.com/fabpot/Sami) - An API documentation generator.



## Security

*Libraries for security, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.*



* [Brakeman](http://brakemanscanner.org/) - Static analysis security scanner for Ruby on Rails.



## Code Analysis

*Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.*



* [SimpleCov](https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov) - Code Coverage.

* [Excellent](https://github.com/simplabs/excellent) - Source Code analysis gem for Ruby and Rails.



## Assets Management

*Libraries and tools for Assets management.*



* [Non-stupid non-digest assets](https://github.com/alexspeller/non-stupid-digest-assets) - compile both digest and non-digest assets in Rails 4.

* [Rack Zippy](https://github.com/eliotsykes/rack-zippy) - Rack middleware for serving static gzipped assets generated by the Rails asset pipeline



## ActiveRecord

*Libraries and tools for ActiveRecord tweaks.*



* [ActiveRecordExtended](https://github.com/GeorgeKaraszi/ActiveRecordExtended) - adds additional PostgreSQL quering abilities to ActiveRecord

* [ActiveRecord Import](https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import) - A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord. 

* [Obfuscate ID](https://github.com/namick/obfuscate_id) - Make your ActiveRecord ids non-obvious.

* [Data Miner](https://github.com/seamusabshere/data_miner) - import XLS, ODS, XML, CSV, HTML, etc. into the ActiveRecord models



## Geolocation

*Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.*



* [GeoKit](https://github.com/geokit/geokit-rails) - Geokit plugin for Rails/ActiveRecord.

* [Zip Codes](https://github.com/monterail/zip-codes) - Identify city and States for given Zip code



## Search

* Libraries for search



* [PG Search](https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search) - builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search 

* [searchkick](https://github.com/ankane/searchkick) - Intelligent search made easy with Rails and Elasticsearch 



## Date and Time

*Libraries for working with dates and times.*



* [Temporal](https://github.com/jejacks0n/temporal) - Javascript timezone detection for Rails



## Feature Toggling

*Libraries that are helping to manage features.*



* [Feature](https://github.com/mgsnova/feature) - A feature toggle library written in ruby

* [Rollout](https://github.com/FetLife/rollout) - A feature flippers



## Logging

*Libraries for generating and working with log files.*



* [Lograge](https://github.com/roidrage/lograge) - Taming Rails' Default Request Logging



## SEO

*Libraries for SEO.*



* [Meta Tags](https://github.com/kpumuk/meta-tags) - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin for Ruby on Rails applications.

* [Human Power](https://github.com/lassebunk/human_power) - Generate robots.txt



## Meta

*Libraries for MetaData.*



* [Preloadables](https://github.com/jacopotarantino/preloadables) - is exposing a set of view helpers for outputting HTML metadata related to domains, assets and pages that you would like to preload/prerender.



## PDF

*Libraries and software for working with PDF files.*



* [Prawn](https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn) - A PDF generation library.

* [Wicked PDF](https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf) - A tool to convert HTML to PDF.

* [Grimm](https://github.com/jonmagic/grim) - A tool for extracting pages from pdf as images and text as strings.



## Performance

*Libraries to dubug and solve performance issues*



* [Alocation Tracer](https://github.com/ko1/allocation_tracer) - allows to trace object allocation.

* [Memory Profiler](https://github.com/SamSaffron/memory_profiler) - A memory profiler for Ruby & Rails apps.

* [Derailed Benchmarks](https://github.com/schneems/derailed_benchmarks) - Benchmarks for your whole Rails app.



## Analytics

*Libraries for user analytics.*



* [Marketable for Devise](https://github.com/n8/devise_marketable) - Marketable lets Devise users easily store where your user came from and where they were going in your Rails app.

* [Meta events](https://github.com/swiftype/meta_events) - is a Ruby gem that sits on top of a user-centric analytics system like Mixpanel and provides structure, documentation, and a historical record to events, and a powerful properties system that makes it easy to pass large numbers of consistent properties with your events.



## Optimization

*Libraries to optimize your rails application.*



* [Counter Culture](https://github.com/magnusvk/counter_culture) - Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.

* [OJ](https://github.com/ohler55/oj) - A fast JSON parser and Object marshaller as a Ruby gem.



## Production

*Tools for production*



* [Errbit](https://github.com/errbit/errbit) - error catcher

* [Peek](https://github.com/peek/peek) - Take a peek into your Rails applications



## Command Line

*Libraries for building command line utilities.*



TBD



## Authentication

*Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.*



* [Devise](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise) - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.



## Authorization

*Libraries for implementing authorization schemes.*



* [Pundit](https://github.com/elabs/pundit) - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

* [The Role](https://github.com/the-teacher/the_role) - Authorization for Rails + GUI. Semantic, Flexible, Lightweight

* [CanCanCan](https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan) - CanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access.



## Text and Numbers

*Libraries for parsing and manipulating text and numbers.*



TBD



## Filtering and Validation

*Libraries for filtering and validating data.*



* [HTML5 Validator](https://github.com/amatsuda/html5_validators) - client-side validation



## REST and API

*Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.*



* [Apipie](https://github.com/Apipie/apipie-rails) - API Documentation Tool



## Caching

*Libraries for caching data.*



TBD



## Data Structure and Storage

*Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.*



TBD



## Notifications

*Libraries for working with notification software.*



TBD



## Deployment



* [Capistrano](https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano) - Remote multi-server automation tool.

* [Capistrano Unicorn](https://github.com/tablexi/capistrano3-unicorn) - Unicorn tasks for Capistrano.

* [Capistrano Fifty Five](https://github.com/mattbrictson/capistrano-fiftyfive) - recipes for use with capistrano to automate installation of a full-stack Rails environment

* [Airbrussh](https://github.com/mattbrictson/airbrussh) - pretties up your SSHKit and Capistrano output

* [Pinglish](https://github.com/jbarnette/pinglish) - A simple Rack middleware for checking application health.

* [Flipper](https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper) - A Allows appplications to be deployable by feature only.



## Parser

*Libraries for parsing*



* [Parslet](https://kschiess.github.io/parslet/get-started.html) - A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion.



## Third Party APIs

*Libraries for accessing third party APIs.*



TBD



## Miscellaneous

*Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.*



TBD



## Development Software

*Software for creating a development environment.*



* [HomeBrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) - A package manager for OSX.

* [Vagrant](http://www.vagrantup.com/) - A portable development environment utility.

* [Puppet](http://puppetlabs.com/) - A server automation framework and application.

* [Chef](https://github.com/opscode/chef) - A systems integration framework.

* [Backup](https://github.com/meskyanichi/backup) - A server backup tool.



## WYSIWIG

*WYSIWIG editors*



* [Bootsy](https://github.com/volmer/bootsy) - is a WYSIWYG editor for Rails based on Bootstrap3-wysihtml5 with image uploads using CarrierWave

* [Mercury Editor 2](https://github.com/jejacks0n/mercury/tree/mercury2) - full featured HTML5 editor

* [Froala jQuery WYSIWYG](https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-rails) - (**Comercial**) provides the Froala WYSIWYG HTML Editor javascript and stylesheets as a Rails engine for use with the asset pipeline

* [Sir Trevor](https://github.com/madebymany/sir-trevor-rails) - Medium like editor



## Background Job



* [Sidekiq Statistics](https://github.com/davydovanton/sidekiq-statistic) - Improved display of statistics for your sidekiq workers and jobs.



## Visual Goodies

*Client side tools integrated with Rails*



* [NProgress](https://github.com/caarlos0/nprogress-rails) - [nprogress library](https://github.com/rstacruz/nprogress) progress bar

  wrapper

  

## Starters/Boilerplates

- [Rails Devise GraphQL](https://github.com/zauberware/rails-devise-graphql) - A Rails 6 boilerplate to create your next Saas product. Preloaded with graphQL, devise, JWT, CanCanCan, RailsAdmin, Rubocop, Rspec, and more.

- [Rails Template](https://github.com/mattbrictson/rails-template) - Application template for Rails 6 projects; preloaded with best practices for TDD, security, deployment, and developer productivity.



# Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your Rails development skills and knowledge.



## Websites

*Useful web and PHP-related websites and newsletters.*



* [Programming Community Curated Resources For Learning Ruby on Rails](https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-ruby-on-rails)



## Books

*Fantastic books and e-books.*



TBD



## Web Reading

*General web-development-related reading materials.*



* [C is for Cookie, H is for Hacker](http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/03/c-is-for-cookie-h-is-for-hacker.html) - An article about cookies and security.

* [You Blew It Loading Your Login Form Over HTTP](http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/05/your-login-form-posts-to-https-but-you.html) - An article about using HTTPS correctly with login forms.

* [How HTTPS Secures Your Connection](http://blog.hartleybrody.com/https-certificates/) - An article explaining how TLS/SSL secures your connection.

* [How to Build a Secure Remember Me Feature](http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/07/how-to-build-and-how-not-to-build.html) - An article on how to build a secure remember me feature.

* [A Beginners Guide to HTTP Cache Headers](http://www.mobify.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-http-cache-headers/) - An article about HTTP cache headers.

* Beyond Series [1](http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2013/09/beyond-design-patterns.html) [2](http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2013/11/beyond-inheritance.html) [3](http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2013/11/beyond-object-oriented-programming.html) [4](http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2013/11/beyond-clean-code.html) - A series of articles about programming by Anthony Ferrara.

* [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) - A website explaining semantic versioning.

* [Atlassian Git Tutorials](https://www.atlassian.com/git) - A series of Git tutorials.



## Rails Reading

*Rails-releated reading materials.*



TBD



## Rails Videos

*Rails online courses, screencasts, etc*



* [List of 80 free and paid Ruby on Rails courses from top e-learning platforms](https://classpert.com/ruby-on-rails) - A directory of RoR online courses by Classpert, an online course search engine.



# Credits



TravisCI validation code by [jondot](https://github.com/jondot). Origin: https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native



# Contributing

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/dpaluy/awesome-rails/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.