Awesome List Updates on Sep 24, 2015

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1. Awesome Rails Gem

Active Record / Omniauth

• Validates (⭐151) - Validates provides collection of useful custom validators for Rails applications, including:
  • EmailValidator
  • UrlValidator
  • SlugValidator
  • MoneyValidator
  • IpValidator
  • AssociationLengthValidator
  • AbsolutePathValidator
  • UriComponentValidator
  • ColorValidator
  • EanValidator (EAN-8 & EAN-13)

• Tagging
  • ActsAsTaggableOn (⭐4.9k) - A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
  • closure_tree (⭐1.7k) - Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies.

Searching / Omniauth

• sunspot (⭐3k) - Sunspot is a Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine. Sunspot is built on top of the RSolr library, which provides a low-level interface for Solr interaction; Sunspot provides a simple, intuitive, expressive DSL backed by powerful features for indexing objects and searching for them.

Admin Panel / Omniauth

• ActiveAdmin - ActiveAdmin is a administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
  • active_skin (⭐423): Flat skin for active admin.

Debug / Omniauth

• byebug (⭐3.3k) - Byebug is a simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2. It uses the new TracePoint API for execution control and the new Debug Inspector API for call stack navigation, so it doesn't depend on internal core sources.
  • pry-byebug (⭐1.9k) - Pry navigation commands via byebug.

• Better Errors (⭐6.8k) - Better errors replaces the standard Rails error page with a much better and more useful error page.
  • If you would like to use Better Errors' advanced features (REPL, local/instance variable inspection, pretty stack frame names), you need to add the binding_ _of__caller (⭐640).

Asset Pipeline / Security

• Alaska (⭐54) - ExecJS runtime with persistent connection to nodejs, speeds up your coffeescript compilation process during development and deployment.

2. Awesome Github

Tips, tricks, tools, and add-ons for GitHub power users

• GitHub Cheat Sheet (⭐37k) - Use this list to test your GitHub knowledge. (A resource so good, it's worth mentioning twice.)

• cli-github (⭐172) - Github made pretty, within the command line.

• GitHub Dark (⭐9.5k) - A sophisticated dark theme for GitHub.

3. Awesome Microservices

Frameworks / Runtimes

• Akka - Toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.

• Vert.X - Toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM.

C

• Kore - Easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C.

D

• Vibe.d - Asynchronous I/O that doesn’t get in your way, written in D.

Erlang VM / Erlang

• Mochiweb (⭐1.9k) - Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

API Gateways / Edge Services / Scala

• Zuul (⭐13k) - An edge service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.

Configuration & Discovery / Scala

• Etcd (⭐46k) - Highly-available key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery.

• Eureka (⭐12k) - REST based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.

• SkyDNS (⭐2.2k) - Distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services.

• Spring Cloud Config - Provides server and client-side support for externalized configuration in a distributed system.

Elasticity / Scala

• Mesos - Abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

• Redisson (⭐22k) - Distributed and scalable Java data structures on top of Redis server.

Serialization / Scala

• BooPickle (⭐365) - Binary serialization library for efficient network communication. For Scala and Scala.js

• CBOR - Implementations of the CBOR standard (RFC 7049) in many languages.

• Cereal - C++11 library for serialization.

• Cheshire (⭐1.5k) - Clojure JSON and JSON SMILE encoding/decoding.

• Etch - Cross-platform, language and transport-independent framework for building and consuming network services.

• Fastjson (⭐26k) - Fast JSON Processor.

• Jackson (⭐8.7k) - A multi-purpose Java library for processing JSON data format.

• Jackson Afterburner (⭐91) - Jackson module that uses bytecode generation to further speed up data binding (+30-40% throughput for serialization, deserialization).

• Kryo (⭐6k) - Java serialization and cloning: fast, efficient, automatic.

• MessagePack - Efficient binary serialization format.

• SBinary (⭐75) - Library for describing binary formats for Scala types.

• Thrift - The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development.

Security / Scala

• RFC7515 - JSON Web Signature (JWS) represents content secured with digital signatures or Message Authentication Codes (MACs) using JSON-based data structures.

• RFC7519 - JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.

4. Awesome R

Syntax

• purrr (⭐1.2k) - A FP package for R in the spirit of underscore.js.

Graphic Displays

• misc3d - Powerful functions to deal with 3d plots, isosurfaces, etc.

• xkcd - Use xkcd style in graphs.

• imager - An image processing package based on CImg library to work with images and display them.

5. Awesome Ruby

CMS

• Camaleon CMS - A dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails 4.

6. Awesome Artificial Intelligence

Competitions

• AI Challenge

• AI Games

7. Awesome Emails

Articles / Misc

• Html Email Development Workflow - A Typical Email Development Workflow by Sitepoint.

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