Awesome List Updates on Aug 26, 2014

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1. Es6 Tools

Transpilers

• regexpu (⭐218) — Transform Unicode-aware ES6 regular expressions to ES5

Build-time transpilation / Gulp Plugins

• regexpu: gulp-regexpu (⭐4)

Boilerplates / Brunch Plugins

• es6-boilerplate (⭐88) - Tooling to allow the community to use es6 now via traceur in conjunction with amd and browser global modules, with source maps, concatenation, minification, compression, and unit testing in real browsers.

Other / Brunch Plugins

• es6-translate (⭐5) - Uses the ES6 loader hooks to load (node flavored) commonjs packages in ES6.

2. Awesome Laravel

Popular Packages / Payments

• Cashier (⭐2.2k) - Subscription billing with Stripe

3. Awesome Ruby

Assets

• Less Rails (⭐339) - The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails asset pipeline.

Code Analysis and Metrics

• Brakeman (⭐6.8k) - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications.

• Flay (⭐723) - 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 (⭐893) - Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.

• Rubycritic (⭐3.3k) - A Ruby code quality reporter.

• SimpleCov (⭐4.7k) - Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

Core Extensions

• ActiveSupport (⭐54k) - A collection of utility classes and standard library extensions.

• Ruby Facets (⭐789) - The premiere collection of general purpose method extensions and standard additions for Ruby.

Dashboards

• Dashing-Rails (⭐1.5k) - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework for Rails.

Data Visualization

• RailRoady (⭐1.7k) - Ruby on Rails 3/4 model and controller UML class diagram generator.

• Rails Erd (⭐3.9k) - Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications.

Database Tools

• Database Cleaner (⭐2.9k) - Database Cleaner is a set of strategies for cleaning your database in Ruby.

Debugging Tools

• Byebug (⭐3.3k) - A simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2.

DevOps Tools

• Lita - ChatOps for Ruby: A pluggable chat bot framework usable with any chat service.

• Mina (⭐4.3k) - Really fast deployer and server automation tool.

• Rubber (⭐1.5k) - The rubber plugin enables relatively complex multi-instance deployments of RubyOnRails applications to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Email

• LetterOpener (⭐3.6k) - Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.

HTML/XML Parsing

• ROXML (⭐223) - Custom mapping and bidirectional marshalling between Ruby and XML using annotation-style class methods, via Nokogiri or LibXML.

HTTP Clients and tools

• excon (⭐1.2k) - 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.

• Patron (⭐542) - Patron is a Ruby HTTP client library based on libcurl.

• Savon (⭐2.1k) - Savon is a SOAP client for the Ruby programming language.

Internationalization

• r18n (⭐511) - Advanced i18n library for Rails, Sinatra, desktop apps, models, works well with complex languages like Russian.

Logging

• HttpLog (⭐774) - Log outgoing HTTP requests.

• Logging (⭐527) - A flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs based on the design of Java's log4j library.

• Lograge (⭐3.4k) - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.

PDF

• Kitabu (⭐660) - A framework for creating e-books from Markdown/Textile text markup using Ruby.

• RGhost (⭐187) - RGhost is a document creation and conversion API.

Processes

• childprocess (⭐560) - Cross-platform ruby library for managing child processes.

Robotics

• Artoo - Next generation robotics framework with support for different platforms: Arduino, Leap Motion, Pebble, Raspberry Pi, etc.

RSS

• Feed normalizer (⭐134) - Extensible Ruby wrapper for Atom and RSS parsers.

• Feedjira (⭐2.1k) - A feed fetching and parsing library.

• Simple rss (⭐224) - A simple, flexible, extensible, and liberal RSS and Atom reader.

Search

• ransack (⭐5.5k) - Object-based searching.

• Searchkick (⭐6.3k) - 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.

Testing

• Fake Data
  • Fabrication - A simple and powerful object generation library.
  • factory_bot (⭐7.9k) - A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.
  • Fake Person (⭐116) - Uses some of the most popular given & surnames in the US & UK.
  • faker (⭐11k) - A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
  • ffaker (⭐1.5k) - A faster Faker, generates dummy data, rewrite of faker.
  • Forgery (⭐794) - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.

Third-party APIs

• wikipedia (⭐296) - Ruby client for the Wikipedia API.

Web Crawling

• LinkThumbnailer (⭐511) - Ruby gem that generates thumbnail images and videos from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.

• Mechanize (⭐4.3k) - Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.

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