Awesome List Updates on Oct 24, 2014

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1. Awesome Ruby

Admin Interface

• bhf - A simple to use Rails-Engine-Gem that offers an admin interface for trusted user.

• RailsAdmin (⭐7.8k) - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.

Analytics

• Ahoy (⭐4k) - A solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.

• Legato (⭐405) - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.

• Staccato (⭐388) - Track analytics into the official Google Analytics Collection API.

API Builder and Discovery

• ActiveModel::Serializers (⭐5.3k) - JSON serialization of objects.

• jbuilder (⭐4.3k) - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.

• Pliny (⭐795) - Opinionated template Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.

• rabl (⭐3.7k) - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support.

• Roar (⭐1.8k) - Resource-Oriented Architectures in Ruby.

Assets

• Sass - Sass makes CSS fun again.

Authentication and OAuth

• Authlogic (⭐4.3k) - Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.

Authorization

• Pundit (⭐8.1k) - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes.

Caching

• Action caching for Action Pack (⭐260) - Action caching for Action Pack.

• Dalli (⭐3.1k) - A high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.

CLI Builder

• GLI (⭐1.2k) - Git-Like Interface Command Line Parser.

• Main (⭐265) - A class factory and DSL for generating command line programs real quick.

• Slop (⭐1.1k) - Simple Lightweight Option Parsing.

• Thor - A toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

• TTY (⭐2.5k) - Toolbox for developing CLI clients.

CMS

• Publify (⭐1.8k) - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.

• Radiant - A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.

Code Analysis and Metrics

• MetricFu (⭐620) - A fist full of code metrics.

• rails_best_practices (⭐4.1k) - A code metric tool for rails projects.

• Reek (⭐4k) - Code smell detector for Ruby.

Coding Style Guides

• Rails style guide (⭐6.4k) - Community-driven Rails best practices and style for Rails 3 and 4.

• RSpec style guide (⭐3.4k) - Better Specs { rspec guidelines with ruby }.

• Ruby style guide (⭐16k) - Community-driven Ruby coding style.

Concurrency and Parallelism

• EventMachine (⭐4.2k) - An event-driven I/O and lightweight concurrency library for Ruby.

Configuration

• Configatron (⭐602) - Simple and feature rich configuration system for Ruby apps.

• Configus (⭐61) - Helps you easily manage environment specific settings.

• dotenv (⭐6.5k) - Loads environment variables from .env.

• Econfig (⭐68) - Flexible configuration for Rails applications.

• Figaro (⭐3.8k) - Simple, Heroku-friendly Rails app configuration using ENV and a single YAML file.

• Global (⭐282) - Provides accessor methods for your configuration data.

Core Extensions

• Hash
  • Hashie (⭐3k) - A collection of tools that extend Hashes and make them more useful.

Country Data

• Carmen (⭐1.2k) - A repository of geographic regions.

• Countries (⭐2.1k) - All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as pretty little country objects.

• i18n_data (⭐189) - country/language names and 2-letter-code pairs, in 85 languages, for country/language i18n.

• normalize_country (⭐67) - Convert country names and codes to a standard, includes a conversion program for XMLs, CSVs and DBs.

Database Drivers

• Cassandra Driver (⭐228) - A pure ruby driver for Apache Cassandra with asynchronous io and configurable load balancing, reconnection and retry policies.

• mongo-ruby-driver (⭐1.4k) - MongoDB Ruby driver.

• mysql2 (⭐2.2k) - A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby (binding to libmysql).

• Redic (⭐119) - Lightweight Redis Client.

• redis-rb (⭐3.9k) - A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.

Database Tools

• PgHero (⭐7.5k) - Postgres insights made easy.

Date and Time Processing

• business_time (⭐1.2k) - Support for doing time math in business hours and days.

• Chronic (⭐3.2k) - A natural language date/time parser written in pure Ruby.

• groupdate (⭐3.7k) - The simplest way to group temporal data in ActiveRecord, arrays and hashes.

• time_diff (⭐146) - Calculates the difference between two time.

• TZinfo (⭐355) - Provides daylight savings aware transformations between times in different timezones.

• validates_timeliness (⭐1.6k) - Date and time validation plugin for ActiveModel and Rails.

• yymmdd (⭐78) - Tiny DSL for idiomatic date parsing and formatting.

Decorators

• Draper (⭐5.2k) - Draper adds an object-oriented layer of presentation logic to your Rails application.

DevOps Tools

• Capistrano - A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby.

• Puppet (⭐7.2k) - 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.

• Vagrant - Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

Documentation

• Inch (⭐518) - Inch is a documentation measurement and evalutation tool for Ruby code, based on YARD.

• YARD - YARD enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily.

E-Commerce and Payments

• Paypal Merchant SDK - Official Paypal Merchant SDK for Ruby.

• ROR Ecommerce (⭐1.2k) - A Rails e-commerce platform.

• Spree (⭐13k) - Spree is a complete open source e-commerce solution for Ruby on Rails.

• stripe-ruby (⭐1.9k) - Stripe Ruby bindings.

Ebook

• Gepub (⭐207) - A generic EPUB library for Ruby : supports EPUB 3.

• Mobi (⭐37) - A Ruby way to read MOBI format metadata.

• Review (⭐1.3k) - Re:VIEW is flexible document format/conversion system.

Email

• Incoming (⭐309) - Incoming! helps you receive email in your Rack apps.

• Mail (⭐3.6k) - A Really Ruby Mail Library.

• Pony (⭐1.1k) - The express way to send mail from Ruby.

Environment Management

• chruby (⭐2.8k) - Change your current Ruby. No shims, no crazy options or features, ~90 LOC.

• fry (⭐62) - Simple ruby version manager for fish.

• gem_home (⭐118) - A tool for changing your $GEM_HOME.

• rbenv (⭐16k) - Use rbenv to pick a Ruby version for your application and guarantee that your development environment matches production.

• ruby-build (⭐3.8k) - Compile and install Ruby.

• ruby-install (⭐1.8k) - Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev or MRuby.

• RVM - RVM is a command-line tool which allows you to easily install, manage, and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.

Error Handling

• Airbrake (⭐963) - The official Airbrake library for Ruby on Rails (and other Rack based frameworks).

• Better Errors (⭐6.9k) - Better error page for Rack apps.

• Exception Notification (⭐2.2k) - A set of notifiers for sending notifications when errors occur in a Rack/Rails application.

• Nesty (⭐116) - Nested exceptions for Ruby.

File Upload

• CarrierWave (⭐8.8k) - Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks.

• DragonFly (⭐2.1k) - A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!.

• rack-secure-upload (⭐74) - Upload files securely.

Form Builder

• Formtastic (⭐5.2k) - A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.

• Rails Bootstrap Forms (⭐1.6k) - Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms with Twitter Bootstrap 3+.

Game Development and Graphics

• Gosu - A 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages.

Geolocation

• Geocoder (⭐6.3k) - 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.

• Geokit (⭐1.6k) - Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations.

Git Tools

• git-auto-bisect (⭐84) - Find the commit that broke master.

• git-spelunk (⭐47) - Dig through git blame history.

• git-whence (⭐21) - Find which merge a commit came from.

• Rugged (⭐2.2k) - Ruby bindings to libgit2.

GUI

• qtbindings (⭐341) - Allows the QT Gui toolkit to be used from Ruby.

• Shoes - Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, and Linux super simple.

HTML/XML Parsing

• HappyMapper (⭐151) - Object to XML mapping library, using Nokogiri.

HTTP Clients and tools

• Faraday (⭐5.6k) - 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.

• Http Client (⭐696) - Gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.

• httparty (⭐5.7k) - Makes http fun again!

• RESTClient (⭐5.2k) - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.

• Sawyer (⭐242) - Secret user agent of HTTP, built on top of Faraday.

• Typhoeus (⭐4.1k) - Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.

Image Processing

• MiniMagick (⭐2.8k) - A ruby wrapper for ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick command line.

• PSD.rb (⭐3.1k) - Parse Photoshop files in Ruby with ease.

• RMagick (⭐687) - RMagick is an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick.

Internationalization

• i18n-tasks (⭐2k) - Manage missing and unused translations with the awesome power of static analysis.

• i18n (⭐960) - Ruby Internationalization and localization solution.

• twitter-cldr-rb (⭐663) - Ruby implementation of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) that uses the Common Locale Data Repository to format dates, plurals, and more.

Logging

• Fluentd (⭐12k) - Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, database or other types of storages.

• Log4r (⭐248) - Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs.

• Scrolls (⭐160) - Simple logging.

• Yell (⭐313) - Your Extensible Logging Library.

Machine Learning

• PredictionIO Ruby SDK (⭐191) - The PredictionIO Ruby SDK provides a convenient API to quickly record your users' behavior and retrieve personalized predictions for them.

Markdown Processors

• kramdown (⭐1.7k) - Kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

• Maruku (⭐496) - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter.

• Redcarpet (⭐4.9k) - A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

Money

• eu_central_bank (⭐210) - A gem that calculates the exchange rate using published rates from European Central Bank.

• Money (⭐2.7k) - A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.

Natural Language Processing

• Treat (⭐1.4k) - Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby.

ORM/ODM

• Sequel (⭐4.9k) - Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby.

Pagination

• Kaminari (⭐27) - A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for modern web app frameworks and ORMs.

• will_paginate (⭐5.7k) - A pagination library that integrates with Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Merb, DataMapper and Sequel.

PDF

• Pdfkit (⭐2.9k) - HTML+CSS to PDF using wkhtmltopdf.

• Prawn (⭐4.6k) - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby.

• Wicked Pdf (⭐3.5k) - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails.

Performance Monitoring

• New Relic (⭐1.2k) - Find and fix Ruby errors with New Relic application monitoring and troubleshooting.

Process Management and Monitoring

• Bluepill (⭐414) - Simple process monitoring tool.

• God (⭐2.2k) - An easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby.

Processes

• posix-spawn (⭐515) - Fast Process::spawn for Rubys >= 1.8.7 based on the posix_spawn() system interfaces.

Profiler and Optimization

• bullet (⭐7k) - Help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading.

• Peek (⭐3.2k) - Visual status bar showing Rails performance.

• rack-mini-profiler (⭐3.6k) - Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.

• ruby-prof (⭐2k) - A code profiler for MRI rubies.

Queues and Messaging

• Delayed::Job (⭐4.8k) - Database backed asynchronous priority queue.

• Resque (⭐9.4k) - A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs.

Scheduling

• resque-scheduler (⭐1.7k) - A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque.

• rufus-scheduler (⭐2.4k) - Job scheduler for Ruby (at, cron, in and every jobs).

• Whenever (⭐8.8k) - A Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.

Search

• pg_search (⭐1.2k) - Builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL's full text search.

• Rroonga (⭐67) - The Ruby bindings of Groonga.

• Sunspot (⭐3k) - A Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine.

• Thinking Sphinx (⭐1.6k) - A library for connecting ActiveRecord to the Sphinx full-text search tool.

SEO

• FriendlyId (⭐6.1k) - The "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Active Record.

• MetaTags (⭐2.7k) - A gem to make your Rails application SEO-friendly.

• SitemapGenerator (⭐2.4k) - A framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby.

Social Networking

• diaspora* (⭐13k) - A privacy aware, distributed, open source social network.

• Discourse (⭐40k) - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

• Social Shares (⭐329) - A gem to check how many times url was shared in social networks.

State Machines

• AASM (⭐4.9k) - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, Rails Active Record, Mongoid).

• simple_states (⭐95) - A super-slim statemachine-like support library.

• Statesman (⭐1.7k) - A statesmanlike state machine library.

• Workflow (⭐1.7k) - A finite-state-machine-inspired API for modeling and interacting with what we tend to refer to as 'workflow'.

Static Site Generation

• High Voltage (⭐3.2k) - Easily include static pages in your Rails app.

• 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.

Template Engine

• Curly (⭐591) - A template language that completely separates structure and logic.

• Haml (⭐3.7k) - HTML Abstraction Markup Language.

• Liquid (⭐11k) - Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.

• Mustache (⭐3k) - Logic-less Ruby templates.

• Slim (⭐5.3k) - A template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.

• Tilt (⭐1.9k) - Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines.

Testing

• Frameworks
  • RSpec (⭐2.9k) - Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby.
    • Formatters
      • Emoji-RSpec (⭐173) - Custom Emoji Formatters for RSpec.
      • Fuubar (⭐935) - The instafailing RSpec progress bar formatter.
      • Nyan Cat (⭐745) - Nyan Cat inspired RSpec formatter!
  • Aruba (⭐948) - Testing command line applications with cucumber and rspec.
  • Bacon (⭐425) - A small RSpec clone.
  • Capybara (⭐9.9k) - Acceptance test framework for web applications.
  • Cucumber (⭐3.4k) - BDD that talks to domain experts first and code second.
  • Cutest (⭐154) - Isolated tests in Ruby.
  • Fix (⭐44) - Specing framework for Ruby.
  • Howitzer (⭐261) - Ruby based framework for acceptance testing
  • minitest (⭐3.2k) - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.
  • Mocha (⭐1.2k) - Mocha is a mocking and stubbing library for Ruby.
  • RR (⭐319) - A test double framework that features a rich selection of double techniques and a terse syntax.
  • shoulda-matchers (⭐3.5k) - 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 (⭐577) - 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 (⭐66) - 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.
  • Test::Unit - Test::Unit is a xUnit family unit testing framework for Ruby.

• Mock
  • ActiveMocker (⭐503) - Generate mocks from ActiveRecord models for unit tests that run fast because they don’t need to load Rails or a database.
  • DnsMock (⭐60) - Ruby DNS mock. Mimic any DNS records for your test environment and even more.
  • DuckRails (⭐1.7k) - Tool for mocking API endpoints quickly & dynamically.
  • SmtpMock (⭐60) - Ruby SMTP mock. Mimic any SMTP server behaviour for your test environment with fake SMTP server.
  • TestXml (⭐30) - TestXml is a small extension for testing XML/HTML.
  • WebMock (⭐3.9k) - Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests.

Third-party APIs

• flickr (⭐19) - A Ruby interface to the Flickr API.

• gitlab (⭐1.1k) - Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab API.

• hipchat-rb (⭐338) - HipChat HTTP API Wrapper in Ruby with Capistrano hooks.

• instagram-ruby-gem (⭐1.5k) - The official gem for the Instagram REST and Search APIs.

• itunes_store_transporter (⭐117) - Ruby wrapper around Apple's iTMSTransporter program.

• linkedin (⭐756) - Provides an easy-to-use wrapper for LinkedIn's REST APIs.

• Octokit - Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API.

• ruby-gmail (⭐792) - A Rubyesque interface to Gmail.

• ruby-trello (⭐719) - Implementation of the Trello API for Ruby.

• soundcloud-ruby (⭐5) - Official SoundCloud API Wrapper for Ruby.

• t (⭐5.4k) - A command-line power tool for Twitter.

• tweetstream (⭐1.1k) - A simple library for consuming Twitter's Streaming API.

• twitter (⭐4.6k) - A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.

• Yt (⭐729) - An object-oriented Ruby client for YouTube API V3.

Web Crawling

• MetaInspector (⭐1k) - Ruby gem for web scraping purposes.

• Upton (⭐1.6k) - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping.

• Wombat (⭐1.3k) - Web scraper with an elegant DSL that parses structured data from web pages.

Web Frameworks

• Cuba - A microframework for web development.

• Padrino - A full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.

• Ramaze - A simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.

• Roda - A routing tree web framework.

• Ruby on Rails - A web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

• Sinatra - Classy web-development dressed in a DSL.

Web Servers

• Phusion Passenger - Fast and robust web server and application server.

• Puma (⭐7.5k) - A modern, concurrent web server for Ruby.

• Rack - A common Ruby web server interface. By itself, it's just a specification and utility library, but all Ruby web servers implement this interface.

• Unicorn - Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix.

WebSocket

• Faye - A set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients.

2. Awesome Swift

Alert / Barcode

• SwiftOverlays (⭐628) - various popups and notifications.

3. Awesome Dojo

Community / Dojo 2

• Linked In Dojo Ajax Toolkit Developers Group - Dojo Community on LinkedIn

• Linked In Dojo Toolkit Group - Dojo Community on LinkedIn

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