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# Awesome Ruby
A curated list of awesome Ruby -- Ruby frameworks, Ruby libraries and Ruby resources. Inspired by awesome-php (https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) & awesome-python (https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python).
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Topics
Major programming topics
* Programming paradigms
** Object-oriented programming
** Imperative programming
** Declarative programming
** Procedural programming
** Functional programming
** Reactive programming
** Generic programming - Generics
* Operators
* Strings
* Conditional statements
* Data structures
* Keywords
* Functions
* Libraries
* Classes
Secondary topics
* The activation stack
* Computer Architecture
* Arrays
* The Assignment Statement
* Branching
* Colors RGB
* Commenting your Code
* Composition of Functions
* Conditionals
* How Data Flows in a Program
* Data Types
* Debugging Programs
* Default Variable Values
* The Software Development Cycle
* Emacs
* Equality Test
* Expressions
* For Loops
* Functions
* Geometric Vectors
* Html
* Information Representation and Transformations
* Integer vs. Floating Point Math
* Interfaces
* Loops
* Math Operators
* Matrix info
* Memory Layout
* Numbering Systems
* Object Oriented Programming
* Packages
* Pair Programming
* Pointers and References
* Problem Solving
* Program Flow
* Programming Style
* Random Numbers
* Recursion
* Semicolons
* Shortcut Evaluation
* Strings (Data Type)
* Structures (Data Type)
* Truth Tables and Logic
* Unsigned Integers
* Variables and Data
* Variables
* While Loops
Ruby topics - programming topics
* Architecture - Software architecture
* Design
* Functional programming
* Text
* Data Structures
* Algorithms
* Dates and Times
* Mathematics
* The File System
* Data Persistence and Exchange
* Data Compression and Archiving
* Cryptography
* Concurrency with Processes, Threads, and Coroutines
* Networking
* The Internet
* Email
* Application Building Blocks
* Internationalization and Localization
* Developer Tools
* Runtime Features
* Language Tools
* Modules and Packages
* Awesome Ruby - awesome-ruby
* Ruby Admin Panels - admin-panels - admin panels
* Ruby Anti-spam - anti-spam - anti spam - antispam
* Ruby Asset Management - asset-management - asset management
* Ruby Audio - audio
* Ruby Auditing - auditing
* Ruby Authentication and OAuth - authentication-and-oauth - authentication and oauth
* Ruby Build Tools - build-tools - build tools
** Ruby Build automation - build-automation - build automation
* Ruby Caching - caching
* Ruby Cloud Services - cloud-services - cloud services
* Ruby CMS - cms
* Ruby Code Analysis and Linter - code-analysis-and-linter - code-analysis and linter - code analysis and linter
* Ruby Command-line Tools - command-line-tools - command-line tools - command line tools
* Ruby Configuration - configuration
* Ruby CSS and Styling - css-and-styling - css and styling
* Ruby Data Validation - data-validation - data validation
* Ruby Data Visualization - data-visualization - data visualization
* Ruby Database Drivers - database-drivers - database drivers - database ORM - database ORMs
* Ruby Date and Time - date-and-time - date and time
* Ruby Debugging Tools - debugging-tools - debugging tools
** Ruby Debugger - Debugger - Debuggers
* Ruby DevOps Tools - devops-tools - DevOps tools
* Ruby Distribution - distribution
* Ruby Documentation - documentation
* Ruby Downloader - downloader
* Ruby E-Commerce & Online Paying - e-commerce--online-paying - e-commerce and online-paying - e-commerce and online-paying
* Ruby E-Mail - e-mail
* Ruby Environment Management - environment-management - environment management
* Ruby File Uploading - file-uploading - file uploading
* Ruby Feature Flipping - feature-flipping - feature flipping
* Ruby Foreign Function Interface - foreign-function-interface - foreign function interface
* Ruby Forms - forms
* Ruby Game Development - game-development - game development
* Ruby Geolocation - geolocation
* Ruby GUI - gui
* Ruby High Performance - high-performance - high performance
* Ruby HTML/XML/CSS Manipulation - htmlxmlcss-manipulation - html manipulation - xml manipulation - css-manipulation
* Ruby HTTP - http
* Ruby Imagery - imagery
* Ruby Internationalization - internationalization
* Ruby Logging - logging
* Ruby Machine Learning - machine-learning - machine learning
* Ruby MapReduce - mapreduce
* Ruby Multi-tenancy - multi-tenancy - multitenancy - multi tenancy
* Ruby Natural Language Processing - natural-language-processing - natural language processing - NLP
* Ruby Networking - networking
* Ruby ORM - orm
* Ruby Package Management - package-management - package management
* Ruby Presentation Tools - presentation-tools - presentation tools
* Ruby Processes and Threads - processes-and-threads - processes and threads - processes and threads - Multi-threaded - Concurrency - Concurrent
* Ruby Push Notification - push-notification - push notification
* Ruby Queue - queue
* Ruby Serverless - serverless
* Ruby Spreadsheets - spreadsheets
* Ruby RESTful API - restful-api - restful API
* Ruby Science and Data Analysis - science-and-data-analysis - science and data analysis - science and data analysis
* Ruby Search - search
* Ruby Site Monitoring - site-monitoring - site monitoring
* Ruby Starter Apps - starter-apps - starter apps
* Ruby Tagging - tagging
* Ruby Template Engine - template-engine - template engine
* Ruby Testing - testing
* Ruby Text Processing - text-processing - text processing
* Ruby Third-party APIs - third-party-apis - third-party APIs - third party APIs
* Ruby URL Manipulation - url-manipulation - url manipulation
* Ruby Video - video
* Ruby Web Content Extracting - web-content-extracting - web content extracting - web content scraping - web scraping
* Ruby Web Crawling - web-crawling - web crawling
* Ruby Web Frameworks - web-frameworks - web frameworks
* Ruby Web Servers - web-servers - web servers
* Ruby WebSocket - websocket
* [Miscellaneous]] - miscellaneous
* Ruby Editor Plugins - editor-plugins - editor plugins
* [Resources]] - resources
* Ruby People to Follow - people-to-follow - people to follow
* Other Awesome Lists - other-awesome-lists - other awesome lists
* Contributing - contributing
Admin Panels
*Libraries for administrative interfaces.*
* Ruby active_admin - https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications
* Ruby rails_admin - https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data
* Ruby administrate - https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate - A framework for creating flexible, powerful admin dashboards in Rails.
Anti-spam
*Libraries for fighting spam.*
* Ruby RubySpamAssassin - https://github.com/noeticpenguin/RubySpamAssassin - Kills Spam Dead. Perhaps before it's sent!
Asset Management
*Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.*
* Ruby sprockets - https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets - Rack-based asset packaging system
* Ruby rails-assets - https://github.com/rails-assets/rails-assets/ - is the frictionless proxy between Bundler and Bower
Audio
* Ruby seal - https://github.com/zhangsu/seal - A C library (with Ruby binding) for 3D audio rendering
Auditing
Ruby Auditing
Ruby Tools for logging changes to ActiveRecord models
* Ruby Audited - https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited - Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.
* Ruby Logidze - https://github.com/palkan/logidze - - Logs model changes via database triggers (PL/SQL functions). Fastest model diffs. PostgreSQL 9.5+ only.
Authentication and OAuth
Ruby Authentication and OAuth - Ruby Authentication and Ruby OAuth
Ruby Libraries for implementing Ruby authentications schemes
* Ruby [Ruby Devise (https://github.com/plataformatec/devise - Devise is a flexible Ruby authentication solution for Rails based on Warden
* Ruby [Omniauth (https://github.com/intridea/omniauth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware
* Ruby Warden - https://github.com/hassox/warden - General Rack Authentication Framework
* Ruby AuthLogic - https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic - A simple ruby authentication solution
* Ruby Sorcery - https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery - Magical authentication for Rails 3 & 4
* Ruby CanCanCan - https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan) Authorization gem for Rails (continued version of CanCan from ryanb)
* Ruby pundit - https://github.com/elabs/pundit - Minimal authorization using object oriented design.
* Ruby authority - https://github.com/nathanl/authority - ORM neutral authorization.
* Ruby doorkeeper - https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper) An OAuth 2 provider for Rails
* Ruby tiddle - https://github.com/adamniedzielski/tiddle/ - Devise strategy for token authentication in API-only Ruby on Rails applications
Build Tools
*Compile software from source code.*
* Ruby teapot - https://github.com/ioquatix/teapot) A decentralised build tool for managing complex cross-platform projects
Caching
*Libraries for caching data.*
* Ruby rack-cache - https://github.com/rtomayko/rack-cache) HTTP Caching for Ruby Web Apps
* Ruby Dalli - https://github.com/mperham/dalli - a high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.
Cloud Services
* Ruby fog - https://github.com/fog/fog) The Ruby cloud services library
* Ruby aws-sdk-ruby - https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby) The official AWS SDK for Ruby
CMS
*Content management systems*
* Ruby Refinery CMS - http://www.refinerycms.com) An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 3.2 and 4.2
* Ruby Comfortable Mexican Sofa - https://github.com/comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa) A powerful Rails 4/5 CMS Engine
* Ruby Browser - http://www.browsercms.org/) Humane Content Management for Rails
* Ruby Locomotive - http://www.locomotivecms.com/) a brand new CMS system with super sexy UI and cool features
* Ruby Radiant - http://radiantcms.org/) A no-fluff, open source content management system
* Ruby Nesta - http://nestacms.com/) A lightweight CMS, implemented in Sinatra
* Ruby alchemy_cms - https://github.com/AlchemyCMS/alchemy_cms) the most powerful, user friendly and flexible Rails CMS
* Ruby weby - https://github.com/cercomp/weby) Newbie CMS in Ruby on Rails
Code Analysis and Linter
*Libraries and tools for analyzing, parsing and manipulation codebases.*
* Ruby sonarlint-intellij - https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarlint-intellij - An IDE extension that helps you detect and fix quality issues as you write code.
* Ruby Rubocop - https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
* Ruby ruby-lint - https://github.com/YorickPeterse/ruby-lint - ruby-lint is a static code analysis tool for Ruby
* Ruby brakeman - https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman - Static analysis tool which checks Ruby on Rails applications for security vulnerabilities
* Ruby reek - https://github.com/troessner/reek - Code smell detector for Ruby
* Ruby Breezer - https://github.com/lambda2/breezer - Lock your Gemfile dependencies to safe versions.
Command-line Tools
*Libraries for building command-line application.*
* Ruby Commander - http://visionmedia.github.io/commander/ - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables
* Ruby Thor - https://github.com/erikhuda/thor - Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces
Configuration
*Libraries for storing configuration options.*
CSS and Styling
Ruby CSS and Styling - Ruby CSS and Ruby Styling - CSS and Styling - CSS and Styling
* Ruby sass - https://github.com/sass/sass) A CSS preproccessor
** Ruby sass-rails - https://github.com/rails/sass-rails) Rails stylesheet engine for Sass
* Ruby less-rails - https://github.com/metaskills/less-rails) The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails
* Ruby compass - https://github.com/Compass/compass) A a Stylesheet Authoring Environment
* Ruby bootstrap-sass - https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass) Official Sass port of Bootstrap
* Ruby foundation-rails - https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails) Foundation for Rails
* Ruby bootswatch-rails - https://github.com/maxim/bootswatch-rails) Bootswatches converted to SCSS ready to use in Rails
* Ruby bourbon - https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon) A lightweight mixin library for Sass
Data Validation
*Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.*
* Ruby kangal - https://github.com/lab2023/kangal - Extended validation gem for email, subdomain, credit card, tax number etc
* Ruby bin_checker - https://github.com/lab2023/bin_checker - BIN validator for Turkish Banks
Data Visualization
*Libraries for visualizing data.*
* Ruby prosperity - https://github.com/smathieu/prosperity) The easiest way to graph data from your Rails models
Database Drivers
Ruby Database Drivers
Ruby Libraries for connecting and operating databases
* Ruby Relational Database Drivers:
** Ruby ruby-pg - https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg) Ruby interface to the PostgreSQL >= 8.4
** Ruby mysql2 - https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2) A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby
** Ruby sqlite3-ruby - https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby) Ruby bindings for the SQLite3 embedded database
* Ruby NoSQL Database Drivers:
Date and Time
*Libraries for working with dates and times.*
* Ruby stamp - https://github.com/jeremyw/stamp) Date and time formatting for humans
* Ruby chronic - https://github.com/mojombo/chronic) Natural language date/time parser
Debugging Tools
* Ruby Libraries for debugging and developing
* Ruby byebug - https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/byebug - Debugging in Ruby 2
* Ruby debugger - https://github.com/cldwalker/debugger - port of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
* Ruby puts_debuggerer - https://github.com/AndyObtiva/puts_debuggerer - Debugger-less debugging FTW
DevOps Tools
*Software and libraries for DevOps.*
* Ruby Puppet - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet - Server automation framework and application
* Ruby Chef - https://github.com/chef/chef - A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.
* Ruby Vagrant - https://www.vagrantup.com/ - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
* Ruby Capistrano - http://capistranorb.com/ - Remote multi-server automation tool
* Ruby Mina - https://github.com/mina-deploy/mina) Really fast deployer and server automation tool
* Ruby Nanobox - https://github.com/nanobox-io/nanobox - A micro-PaaS (μPaaS) for creating consistent, isolated, Ruby environments deployable anywhere https://nanobox.io.
Distribution
*Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.*
* Ruby fpm - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) Building packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
Documentation
*Libraries for generating project documentation.*
* Ruby Dictum - https://github.com/Wolox/dictum - A tool that let's you create automatic documentation of your Rails API endpoints through your tests.
* Ruby rdoc - https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc) HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects
* Ruby yard - https://github.com/lsegal/yard) A Ruby Documentation tool
Downloader
*Libraries for downloading.*
* Ruby GitHub Starred Repos Downloader - https://github.com/LeonardoCardoso/gsrd - gsrd downloads your public starred repos. Just in case you want to keep a backup of them from time to time.
E-Commerce & Online Paying
* Ruby Active Merchant - https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant - A simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify.
* Ruby Spree - https://github.com/spree/spree - A complete open source e-commerce solution for Ruby on Rails.
* Ruby Square SDK - https://github.com/square/square-ruby-sdk - Use this gem to integrate Square payments into your app and grow your business with Square APIs including Catalog, Customers, Employees, Inventory, Labor, Locations, and Orders.
* Ruby PayPal Merchant SDK - https://github.com/paypal/merchant-sdk-ruby - Provides Ruby APIs for processing payments, recurring payments, subscriptions and transactions using PayPal's Merchant APIs.
E-Mail
*Libraries for sending and parsing email.*
* Ruby mail - https://github.com/mikel/mail) A Really Ruby Mail Library
* Ruby mailman - https://github.com/mailman/mailman) An incoming mail processing microframework in Ruby
Environment Management
*Libraries for Ruby version and environment management.*
* Ruby chruby - https://github.com/postmodern/chruby - Changes the current Ruby
* Ruby chgems - https://github.com/postmodern/chgems - Chroot for RubyGems
* Ruby rvm - https://rvm.io/ - Ruby Version Manager
* Ruby rbenv - http://rbenv.org/ - Groom your app’s Ruby environment
* Ruby ruby-install - https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install - Installs Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev or MRuby
* Ruby ruby-build - https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build - Compile and install Ruby
* Ruby Nanobox - https://github.com/nanobox-io/nanobox - A tool for creating isolated Ruby environments for consistency across teams and application stages (dev, staging, production, etc.) https://nanobox.io.
Error Handling
*Libraries for exception and error handling.*
* Ruby Exception Notification - https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification - A set of notifiers for sending notifications when errors occur in a Rack/Rails application
* Ruby Errbit - http://errbit.github.io/errbit - The open source, self-hosted error catcher
* Ruby Airbrake - https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake - The official Airbrake library for Ruby on Rails (and other Rack based frameworks)
* Ruby Better Errors - https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors - Better error page for Rack apps
File Uploading
*Libraries for handling file uploads.*
* Ruby paperclip - https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord
* Ruby dragonfly - https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly) On-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more
* Ruby carrierwave - https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave) Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks
* Ruby attache - https://github.com/choonkeat/attache - Yet another approach to file upload https://attache-demo.herokuapp.com
Feature flipping
*Libraries for flipping features*
* Ruby abstract_feature_branch - https://github.com/AndyObtiva/abstract_feature_branch) a gem that enables developers to easily branch by abstraction
* Ruby helioth - https://github.com/gmontard/helioth) Manage feature flipping and rollout
* Ruby flipper - https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper) feature flipping for ANYTHING
* Ruby flip - https://github.com/pda/flip) Flip lets you declare and manage feature flags, backed by cookies (private testing) and database (site-wide)
* Ruby rollout - https://github.com/FetLife/rollout) Feature flippers.
Foreign Function Interface
*Libraries for providing foreign function interface.*
Forms
*Libraries for working with forms.*
* Ruby simple_form - https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form) Forms made easy for Rails
* Ruby formtastic - https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic) A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup
* Ruby bootstrap_form - https://github.com/bootstrap-ruby/bootstrap_form) A Rails form builder that makes it super easy to integrate Bootstrap v4-style forms into your Rails application
Game Development
*Awesome game development libraries.*
* Ruby Gosu - https://www.libgosu.org/ - A 2D game development library for the Ruby and C++ programming languages
Geolocation
*Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.*
* Ruby geocoder - https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder) Complete Ruby geocoding solution
* Ruby Geokit - https://github.com/geokit/geokit - Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations.
Git Tools
*Libraries for working with Git VCS*
* Ruby katip - https://github.com/lab2023/katip - Change logger for Git initialized projects
GUI
*Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.*
* Ruby glimmer - https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer) Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library
* Ruby shoes - https://github.com/shoes/shoes) A tiny graphical app kit for ruby
* Ruby shoes4 - https://github.com/shoes/shoes4) the next version of Shoes
High Performance
*Libraries for making Ruby faster.*
* Ruby EventMachine - https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine - EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
* Ruby Celluloid - https://celluloid.io/ - Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby. It has its own [awesomeness]] - https://github.com/sashaegorov/awesome-celluloid).
HTML/XML/CSS Manipulation
*Libraries for working with HTML, XML & CSS.*
* Ruby Nokogiri - http://www.nokogiri.org/)
* Ruby loofah - https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah) A general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments
HTTP
*Libraries for working with HTTP.*
* Ruby httparty - https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty) Makes http fun again!
* Ruby faraday - https://github.com/lostisland/faraday) Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
* Ruby http - https://github.com/httprb/http) A simple Ruby DSL for making HTTP requests
* Ruby excon - https://github.com/excon/excon) Usable, fast, simple HTTP(S) 1.1 for Ruby
* Ruby nestful - https://github.com/maccman/nestful) Simple Ruby HTTP/REST client with a sane API
* Ruby response_code - https://github.com/torokmark/response_code) Response Code in readable way
Imagery
Ruby Imagery
Ruby Libraries for manipulating images
* Ruby rmagick - https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick) An interface to the ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick image processing libraries
** [minimagick]] - https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick) Minified version of rmagick
* Ruby chunky_png - https://github.com/wvanbergen/chunky_png) Read/write access to PNG images in pure Ruby
* Ruby image_optim - https://github.com/toy/image_optim) Optimize images using multiple utilities
* Ruby magickly - https://github.com/afeld/magickly) image manipulation as a (plugin-able) service
Internationalization
*Libraries for woking with i18n.*
* Ruby i18n - https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n - Basic internationalization(i18n) library for Ruby
* Ruby globalize - https://github.com/globalize/globalize) Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation
* Ruby i18n-tasks - https://github.com/glebm/i18n-tasks) Manage translations in ruby applications with the awesome power of static analysis
Logging
*Libraries for generating and working with log files.*
* Ruby Logstash - https://github.com/elastic/logstash) Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs.
Machine Learning
*Libraries for Machine Learning.*
* Ruby PredictionIO Ruby SDK - https://github.com/PredictionIO/PredictionIO-Ruby-SDK - The PredictionIO Ruby SDK provides a convenient API to quickly record your users' behavior and retrieve personalized predictions for them
* Ruby m2cgen - https://github.com/BayesWitnesses/m2cgen - A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native Ruby code with zero dependencies.
MapReduce
*Frameworks and libraries for MapReduce.*
Multi-tenancy
*Libraries for managing multi-tenant apps.*
* Ruby Apartment - https://github.com/influitive/apartment - Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications
Natural Language Processing
*Libraries for working with human languages.*
* Ruby Treat - https://github.com/louismullie/treat - Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby
Networking
*Libraries for network programming.*
ORM
*Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or data mapping techniques.*
* Relational Databases
* Ruby ActiveRecord - https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/activerecord - Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes
* Ruby DataMapper - http://datamapper.org/ - DataMapper is an Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. The goal is to create an ORM which is fast, thread-safe and feature rich.
* Ruby Sequel - http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/ - The Database Toolkit for Ruby
* NoSQL Databases
* Ruby Mongoid - http://mongoid.org - Mongoid (pronounced mann-goyd) is an Object-Document-Mapper (ODM) for MongoDB written in Ruby.
* Ruby Ohm - https://github.com/soveran/ohm - Object-Hash Mapping for Redis
Package Management
*Libraries for package and dependency management.*
* Ruby RubyGems - https://rubygems.org/ - RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries
* Ruby Bundler - http://bundler.io - Bundler provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed
* Ruby Homebrew - http://brew.sh - Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t
* Ruby Homebrew Cask - http://caskroom.io/ - Cask provides a friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Pagination
* Ruby kaminari - https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari) A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator
* Ruby will_paginate - https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate) Pagination library for Rails 3, Sinatra, Merb, DataMapper, and more
* Ruby order_query - https://github.com/glebm/order_query) Keyset pagination to find the next or previous record(s) relative to the current one efficiently, e.g. for infinite scroll.
PDF Processing
* Ruby DocRaptor - https://github.com/DocRaptor/docraptor-ruby) Wrapper library for [DocRaptor's]] - https://docraptor.com) Ruby-based HTML-to-PDF API
* Ruby wicked_pdf - https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf) PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
* Ruby pdfkit - https://github.com/pdfkit/pdfkit) HTML+CSS to PDF using wkhtmltopdf
* Ruby prawn - https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn) Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
* Ruby InvoicePrinter - https://github.com/strzibny/invoice_printer - Super simple PDF invoicing in Ruby (built on top of Prawn).
Presentation Tools
* Ruby rabbit - https://github.com/rabbit-shocker/rabbit) A programable presentaton tool by Ruby
* Ruby reveal-ck - https://github.com/jedcn/reveal-ck) Reveal.js presentations with a Ruby toolset
Processes and Threads
*Libraries for woking with processes or threads*
* Ruby Parallel - https://github.com/grosser/parallel - Ruby parallel processing made simple and fast
Profiling
* Ruby bullet - https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet - help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
Push Notification
* Ruby Rpush - https://github.com/rpush/rpush - The push notification service for Ruby.
* Ruby apn_sender - https://github.com/arthurnn/apn_sender - Background worker to send Apple Push Notifications over a persistent TCP socket.
* Ruby Houston - https://github.com/nomad/houston - A simple gem for sending Apple Push Notifications.
* Ruby webpush - https://github.com/zaru/webpush - Encryption Utilities for Web Push protocol
Queue
*Libraries for working with event and task queues.*
* Ruby Resque - https://github.com/resque/resque) A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues.
* Ruby Delayed::Job - https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job) — Database backed asynchronous priority queue.
* Ruby Qu - https://github.com/bkeepers/qu) A Ruby library for queuing and processing background jobs.
* Ruby Sidekiq - https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq) Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
RESTful API
*Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.*
* Ruby Grape - http://intridea.github.io/grape/ - An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
* Ruby Rails::API - https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api - Rails for API only applications
* Ruby jbuilder - https://github.com/rails/jbuilder - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL
* Ruby rabl - https://github.com/nesquena/rabl - General Ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
* Ruby active_model_serializers - https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers - ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks
* Ruby oat - https://github.com/ismasan/oat - Adapters-based API serializers with Hypermedia support for Ruby apps (HAL, Siren, JSONAPI).
* Ruby APIcasso - https://github.com/ErvalhouS/APIcasso - An abstract API design as a Rails-based mountable engine. RESTfullize your legacy code.
Serverless
* Ruby FaaStRuby - https://faastruby.io - Serverless Software Development Platform for Ruby and Crystal developers.
Spreadsheets
*Libraries for manipulating Excel, Google Spreadsheets, Numbers, OpenOffice and LibreOffice files*
* Ruby spreadsheet - https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet - The Spreadsheet Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents.
* Ruby caxlsx - https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx - Caxlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents.
* Ruby caxlsx_rails - https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx_rails - Axlsx-Rails provides an Axlsx renderer so you can move all your spreadsheet code from your controller into view files.
* Ruby roo - https://github.com/roo-rb/roo - Roo implements read access for all spreadsheet types and read/write access for Google spreadsheets.
* Ruby google-spreadsheet-ruby - https://github.com/gimite/google-spreadsheet-ruby - This is a library to read/write Google Spreadsheet.
* Ruby rubyXL - https://github.com/weshatheleopard/rubyXL - rubyXL is a gem which allows the parsing, creation, and manipulation of Microsoft Excel (.xlsx/.xlsm) Documents
* Ruby Odf-report - https://github.com/sandrods/odf-report - Generates ODF files, given a template (.odt) and data, replacing tags
* Ruby simple_xlsx_writer - https://github.com/harvesthq/simple_xlsx_writer - Just as the name says, simple writter for Office 2007+ Excel files
* Ruby remote_table - https://github.com/seamusabshere/remote_table - Open local or remote XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV (comma separated), TSV (tab separated), other delimited, fixed-width files, and Google Docs.
* Ruby acts_as_caxlsx - https://github.com/caxlsx/acts_as_caxlsx - acts_as_caxlsx lets you turn any ActiveRecord::Base inheriting class into an excel spreadsheet.
* Ruby activeadmin-caxlsx - https://github.com/caxlsx/activeadmin-caxlsx - This gem uses caxlsx to provide excel/xlsx downloads for resources in Active Admin.
* Ruby to_spreadsheet - https://github.com/glebm/to_spreadsheet - Render XLSX from Rails using existing views
* Ruby write_xlsx - https://github.com/cxn03651/write_xlsx - write_xlsx is a gem to create a new file in the Excel 2007+ XLSX format.
* Ruby excel_rails - https://github.com/asanghi/excel_rails - Allows you to program spreadsheets using .rxls views
* Ruby sheets - https://github.com/bspaulding/Sheets - Work with spreadsheets easily in a native ruby format.
* Ruby workbook - https://github.com/murb/workbook - Workbook contains workbooks, as in a table, contains rows, contains cells, reads/writes excel, ods and csv and tab separated files...
* Ruby Spreadsheet report - https://github.com/gnoso/spreadsheet_report - Simple tool for running queries against ActiveRecord and putting them into a Google Spreadsheet.
* Ruby oxcelix - https://github.com/gbiczo/oxcelix - A fast Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsx) file parser that returns a collection of Matrix objects
* Ruby wrap_excel - https://github.com/tomiacannondale/wrap_excel - WrapExcel is to wrap the win32ole, and easy to use Excel operations with ruby. Detailed description please see the README.
* Ruby write_xlsx_rails - https://github.com/maxd/write_xlsx_rails - xlsx renderer for Rails base on write_xlsx gem
* Ruby Fastsheet - https://github.com/dkkoval/fastsheet - Fast spreadsheet reader using Rust native extensions.
Scheduling
* Ruby whenever - https://github.com/javan/whenever) Cron jobs in Ruby
* Ruby resque-scheduler - https://github.com/resque/resque-scheduler) A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of resque
* Ruby rufus-scheduler - https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler) Scheduler for Ruby
* Ruby Clockwork - https://github.com/tomykaira/clockwork) Clockwork is a cron replacement. It runs as a lightweight, long-running Ruby process which sits alongside your web processes (Mongrel/Thin) and your worker processes (DJ/Resque/Minion/Stalker) to schedule recurring work at particular times or dates.
Science and Data Analysis
*Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.*
Search
*Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.*
* Ruby Thinking Sphinx - https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx - Sphinx plugin for ActiveRecord/Rails
* Ruby elasticsearch-ruby - https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch
* Ruby Searchkick - https://github.com/ankane/searchkick - Intelligent search made easy
* Ruby Algoliasearch Rails - https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-rails/ - AlgoliaSearch integration to your favorite ORM
* Ruby PgSearch - https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search - PostgreSQL's full text search
* Ruby Rroonga - https://github.com/ranguba/rroonga - The Ruby bindings of Groonga
* Ruby Sunspot - https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot - Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
Site Monitoring
*Libs for analytics, monitoring*
* Ruby rack-google-analytics - https://github.com/kangguru/rack-google-analytics) Simple Rack middleware for implementing google analytics tracking
* Ruby DataDog - https://github.com/DataDog/dogapi-rb) A monitoring service for IT, operations and development teams
* Ruby Instrumental - https://github.com/Instrumental/instrumental_agent-ruby) High-scale, non-blocking agent for [Instrumental]] - https://instrumentalapp.com) application monitoring
* Ruby Keen IO - https://github.com/keenlabs/keen-gem) Build analytics features directly into your Ruby apps
Static Page Generation
* Ruby jekyll - https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll) A blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby
* Ruby middleman - https://github.com/middleman/middleman)
Starter Apps
*App templates for creating apps quickly*
* Ruby suspenders - https://github.com/thoughtbot/suspenders) A Rails template with our standard defaults, ready to deploy to Heroku
* Ruby ruby2-rails4-bootstrap-heroku - https://github.com/diowa/ruby2-rails4-bootstrap-heroku) A starter application based on Ruby 2, Rails 4 and Bootstrap for Sass, deployable on Heroku
* Ruby rails-bootstrap - https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-bootstrap) Rails 4.1 starter app with the Bootstrap front-end framework
* Ruby rails4-starterkit - https://github.com/starterkits/rails4-starterkit) Rails 4.1 starter app with production ready performance, security, and authentication
* Ruby cybele - https://github.com/lab2023/cybele - Rails 4.x template with responder, simple form, haml, exception notification, etc ...
Text Processing
Ruby Text Processing
* Ruby Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts
* General
* Specific Formats
* Parser
* Ruby Yomu - https://github.com/Erol - Read text and metadata from files and documents (.doc, .docx, .pages, .odt, .rtf, .pdf)
Tagging
*Libraries for tagging items.*
* Ruby acts-as-taggable-on - https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on - A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
Template Engine
*Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.*
* Ruby Slim - https://github.com/slim-template/slim) A templating lang that reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.
** Ruby slim-rails - https://github.com/slim-template/slim-rails) Rails port of Slim lang
* Ruby Haml - https://github.com/haml/haml) HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku
** Ruby haml-rails - https://github.com/indirect/haml-rails) Rails port of Haml lang
* Ruby Tilt - https://github.com/rtomayko/tilt)
* Ruby Liquid - https://github.com/Shopify/liquid)
Testing
*Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*
* Testing Frameworks
* Ruby RSpec - http://rspec.info/ - BDD for Ruby
* Ruby MiniTest - https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking
* [[Ruby Cucumber]
* Ruby Cucumber Github - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki - Cucumber is a tool that executes plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests
* Ruby Cucumber Site - https://cucumber.io/ - Behaviour Driven Development with elegacy and joy
* Ruby Spinach - https://github.com/codegram/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.
* Ruby Rubytest - http://rubyworks.github.io/rubytest - Rubytest is a testing meta-framework useful for creating highly customize test suites or building whole new test frameworks.
* Ruby BRASS - http://rubyworks.github.io/brass - Bare-metal Ruby assertion system standard used by Rubytest.
* Ruby Lemon - http://rubyworks.github.io/lemon - Strict unit test system built on top of Rubytest.
* Ruby shoulda-matchers - https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers - Collection of testing matchers extracted from Shoulda
* Ruby capybara - https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications
* Mock
* Ruby RSpec-mocks - https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks - RSpec's 'test double' framework, with support for stubbing and mocking
* Ruby Mocha - http://gofreerange.com/mocha/docs/ - Mocking and stubbing library with JMock/SchMock syntax, which allows mocking and stubbing of methods on real (non-mock) classes.
* Ruby FlexMock - https://github.com/jimweirich/flexmock - Flexible mocking for Ruby testing
* Fake Data
* Ruby Faker - https://github.com/stympy/faker - A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers
* Ruby ffaker - https://github.com/ffaker/ffaker - Faker Refactored.
* Ruby Forgery - https://github.com/sevenwire/forgery - Easy and customizable generation of forged data.
* Code Coverage
* Ruby simplecov - https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov) Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage
* Load Testing
* Error Handler
Third-party APIs
*Libraries for accessing third party APIs.*
* Ruby koala - https://github.com/arsduo/koala) A lightweight, flexible library for Facebook
* Ruby fb_graph - https://github.com/nov/fb_graph) A full-stack Facebook Graph API wrapper
* Ruby twitter - https://github.com/sferik/twitter) A Ruby interface to the Twitter API
* Ruby tweetstream - https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream) A simple library for consuming Twitter's Streaming API
* Ruby gitlab - https://github.com/NARKOZ/gitlab) Ruby wrapper and CLI for the GitLab API
* Ruby octokit.rb - https://github.com/octokit/octokit.rb) Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
* Ruby instagram - https://github.com/Instagram/instagram-ruby-gem) The official gem for the Instagram API
* Ruby linkedin - https://github.com/hexgnu/linkedin) Ruby wrapper for the LinkedIn API
* Ruby twilio-ruby - https://github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby) A Ruby gem for communicating with the Twilio API and generating TwiML
* Ruby viewpoint-spws - https://github.com/zenchild/viewpoint-spws) A Microsoft Sharepoint Web Services library for Ruby.
* Ruby youtube_it - https://github.com/kylejginavan/youtube_it) An object-oriented Ruby wrapper for the YouTube GData API
* Ruby flickraw - https://github.com/hanklords/flickraw) Flickraw is a library to access flickr api
* Ruby f00px - https://github.com/500px/f00px) Official 500px api ruby gem
* Ruby rspotify - https://github.com/guilhermesad/rspotify) Ruby wrapper for the Spotify Web API
URL Manipulation
*Libraries for parsing URLs.*
Video
*Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.*
* Ruby streamio-ffmpeg - https://github.com/streamio/streamio-ffmpeg) Simple yet powerful ruby FFmpeg wrapper for reading metadata and transcoding movies
Web Content Extracting
*Libraries for extracting web contents.*
Web Crawling
*Libraries for scraping websites.*
* Ruby upton - https://github.com/propublica/upton) A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping
* Ruby metainspector - https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector)
Web Frameworks
*Web development frameworks.*
* Ruby Ruby On Rails - http://rubyonrails.org/ - Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity
* Ruby Sinatra - http://www.sinatrarb.com/ - Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
* Ruby Padrino - http://www.padrinorb.com/ - The Godfather of Sinatra provides a full-stack agnostic framework on top of Sinatra
* Ruby Cramp - http://cramp.in/ - Cramp is a fully asynchronous real-time web application framework in Ruby
* Ruby Lotus - http://lotusrb.org/ - A newborn complete Ruby web framework that is simple, fast and lightweight.
* Ruby Cuba - http://cuba.is/ - Cuba is a microframework for web development originally inspired by Rum, a tiny but powerful mapper for Rack applications.
* Ruby Pakyow - https://pakyow.com/ - Pakyow is an open-source framework for the modern web. Build working software faster with a development process that remains friendly to both designers and developers. It's built for getting along.
* Ruby Hyperstack - https://hyperstack.org/ - A complete Isomorphic Ruby Framework using React, Opal and Rails
Web Servers
*App server interface*
* Ruby puma - https://github.com/puma/puma) A simple, fast, threaded, and highly concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications.
* Ruby thin - https://github.com/macournoyer/thin) A thin and fast web server
* Ruby trinidad - https://github.com/trinidad/trinidad) Run Rails or Rack applications within an embedded Apache Tomcat container.
* Ruby unicorn - https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn) An HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients.
* Ruby passenger - https://github.com/phusion/passenger) A modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python, and Node.js.
* Ruby pow - https://github.com/basecamp/pow) Pow treats files and directories as ruby objects giving you more power and flexibility.
* Ruby goliath - https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath) is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework.
WebSocket
*Libraries for woking with WebSocket.*
* Ruby Faye - http://faye.jcoglan.com/ruby.html - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
* Ruby websocket-rails - https://github.com/websocket-rails/websocket-rails - Plug and play websocket support for ruby on rails.
# Miscellaneous
*Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.*
* Ruby packetfu - https://github.com/packetfu/packetfu) A mid-level packet manipulation library for Ruby.
* Ruby chatterbot - https://github.com/muffinista/chatterbot) A straightforward ruby-based Twitter Bot Framework, using OAuth to authenticate
* Ruby sneakers - https://github.com/jondot/sneakers) A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ
* Ruby ransack - https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack) Object-based searching.
* Ruby cinch - https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch) The IRC Bot Building Framework
* Ruby pry - https://github.com/pry/pry) An IRB alternative and runtime developer console
* Ruby rib - http://rib.godfat.org/) A lightweight and extensible IRB replacement
* Ruby jazz_hands - https://github.com/nixme/jazz_hands/) Pry-based enhancements for the default Rails 3 and 4 consoles
* Ruby awesome_print - https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print) A Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in full color exposing their internal structure with proper indentation.
* Ruby friendly_id - https://github.com/norman/friendly_id) Slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord
* Ruby backup - https://github.com/backup/backup) An elegant DSL in Ruby for performing backups on UNIX-like systems
* Ruby kss - https://github.com/kneath/kss) Documenting CSS and generating styleguides
* Ruby AASM - https://github.com/aasm/aasm - A library for adding finite state machines to Ruby classes
* Ruby JsonCompare - https://github.com/a2design-inc/json-compare - Returns the difference between two JSON files
* Ruby blankable - https://github.com/lab2023/blankable - Adds blank slates to index view in Rails
* Ruby tcmb_currency - https://github.com/lab2023/tcmb_currency - T.C.M.B. currencies for Money Gem
* Ruby enumerize - https://github.com/brainspec/enumerize - Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support
* Ruby lol_dba - https://github.com/plentz/lol_dba - lol_dba is a small package of rake tasks that scan your application models and displays a list of columns that probably should be indexed.
* Ruby annotate-models - https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models - Annotate ActiveRecord models
* Ruby fast_attributes - https://github.com/applift/fast_attributes - FastAttributes adds attributes with their types to the class
* Ruby Github Changelog Generator - https://github.com/skywinder/Github-Changelog-Generator) — automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
* Ruby Letter Opener - https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener) — Preview email in the default browser instead of sending it.
* Ruby Auto HTML - https://github.com/dejan/auto_html) — Transforming URLs to appropriate resource (image, link, YouTube, Vimeo video,...).
* Ruby OctoLinker - https://github.com/OctoLinker/browser-extension - Navigate through projects on GitHub.com efficiently with the OctoLinker browser extension.
* Ruby BetterDocs - https://github/khusnetdinov/betterdocs - Documentation with collection practices in ruby. Good for new ruby developers and beginners.
Editor Plugins
*Plugins for various editors.*
* Ruby vim-ruby - https://github.com/vim-ruby/vim-ruby) Vim/Ruby Configuration Files
* Ruby vim-rails - https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails) rails.vim: Ruby on Rails power tools
# Resources
*Where to discover things (libraries, news e.g) about Ruby.*
* Ruby The Ruby Toolbox - https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/)
* Ruby RubyGems - https://rubygems.org/)
* Ruby RubyDaily - http://rubydaily.org - Community driven news
* Ruby Ruby Weekly - http://rubyweekly.com/ - A free, once–weekly e-mail round-up of Ruby news and articles.
* Ruby Ruby5 - https://ruby5.codeschool.com/ - The latest news in the Ruby and Rails community
* Ruby RubyFlow - http://www.rubyflow.com - Ruby Programming Community Link Blog
* Ruby Ruby Curated Resources - https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-ruby)
People to Follow
*People in Ruby World*
* Ruby Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto - https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz - Creator of Ruby lang
* Ruby David Heinemeier Hansson - https://twitter.com/dhh - Creator of Rails framework
* Ruby Koichi Sasada - https://github.com/ko1 - Ruby core committer and the developer of YARV
* Ruby Aaron Patterson - http://tenderlovemaking.com/ - Committer to Nokogiri, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails
* Ruby Avdi Grimm - http://devblog.avdi.org/ - Host of Ruby Tapas webcasts
* Ruby Aman Gupta - http://tmm1.net/ - Ruby core committer
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