Awesome List Updates on Oct 27 - Nov 02, 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 (⭐7.9k) - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.

Analytics

Ahoy (⭐4.2k) - A solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.

Legato (⭐402) - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.

Staccato (⭐389) - 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 (⭐800) - Opinionated template Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.

rabl (⭐3.6k) - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support.

Roar (⭐1.9k) - 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 (⭐8.2k) - 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 (⭐1.3k) - Git-Like Interface Command Line Parser.

Main (⭐266) - 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 (⭐624) - A fist full of code metrics.

rails_best_practices (⭐4.2k) - A code metric tool for rails projects.

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

Coding Style Guides

Rails style guide (⭐6.5k) - Community-driven Rails best practices and style for Rails 3 and 4.

RSpec style guide (⭐3.5k) - Better Specs { rspec guidelines with ruby }.

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

Concurrency and Parallelism

EventMachine (⭐4.3k) - An event-driven I/O and lightweight concurrency library for Ruby.

Configuration

Configatron (⭐601) - Simple and feature rich configuration system for Ruby apps.

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

dotenv (⭐6.6k) - 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 (⭐2.2k) - All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as pretty little country objects.

i18n_data (⭐192) - 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 (⭐233) - 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 (⭐120) - Lightweight Redis Client.

redis-rb (⭐4k) - A Ruby client that tries to match Redis' API one-to-one, while still providing an idiomatic interface.

Database Tools

PgHero (⭐8k) - Postgres insights made easy.

Date and Time Processing

business_time (⭐1.3k) - 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 (⭐357) - Provides daylight savings aware transformations between times in different timezones.

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

yymmdd (⭐77) - 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 (⭐7.4k) - 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 (⭐519) - 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 (⭐240) - A generic EPUB library for Ruby : supports EPUB 3.

Mobi (⭐38) - 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 (⭐2.9k) - 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 (⭐3.9k) - Compile and install Ruby.

ruby-install (⭐1.9k) - 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 (⭐964) - 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 (⭐117) - 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 (⭐86) - Find the commit that broke master.

git-spelunk (⭐46) - Dig through git blame history.

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

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

GUI

qtbindings (⭐340) - 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 (⭐152) - Object to XML mapping library, using Nokogiri.

HTTP Clients and tools

Faraday (⭐5.7k) - 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 (⭐699) - Gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.

httparty (⭐5.8k) - Makes http fun again!

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

Sawyer (⭐247) - 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 (⭐703) - RMagick is an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick.

Internationalization

i18n-tasks (⭐2.1k) - Manage missing and unused translations with the awesome power of static analysis.

i18n (⭐975) - Ruby Internationalization and localization solution.

twitter-cldr-rb (⭐669) - Ruby implementation of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) that uses the Common Locale Data Repository to format dates, plurals, and more.

Logging

Fluentd (⭐13k) - Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, database or other types of storages.

Log4r (⭐250) - Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs.

Scrolls (⭐159) - Simple logging.

Yell (⭐311) - 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 (⭐499) - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter.

Redcarpet (⭐5k) - A fast, safe and extensible Markdown to (X)HTML parser.

Money

eu_central_bank (⭐216) - 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 (⭐416) - Simple process monitoring tool.

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

Processes

posix-spawn (⭐520) - Fast Process::spawn for Rubys >= 1.8.7 based on the posix_spawn() system interfaces.

Profiler and Optimization

bullet (⭐7.1k) - Help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading.

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

rack-mini-profiler (⭐3.7k) - 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 (⭐1.3k) - Builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL's full text search.

Rroonga (⭐66) - 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 (⭐41k) - 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 (⭐5k) - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, Rails Active Record, Mongoid).

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

Statesman (⭐1.8k) - 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 (⭐594) - A template language that completely separates structure and logic.

Haml (⭐3.8k) - 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 - Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby.
  - Formatters
    - Emoji-RSpec (⭐173) - Custom Emoji Formatters for RSpec.
    - Fuubar (⭐954) - The instafailing RSpec progress bar formatter.
    - Nyan Cat (⭐742) - Nyan Cat inspired RSpec formatter!
- Aruba (⭐950) - Testing command line applications with cucumber and rspec.
- Bacon (⭐426) - A small RSpec clone.
- Capybara (⭐10k) - 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 (⭐46) - Specing framework for Ruby.
- Howitzer (⭐260) - Ruby based framework for acceptance testing
- minitest (⭐3.3k) - 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 (⭐320) - 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 (⭐581) - 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 (⭐68) - 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 (⭐505) - Generate mocks from ActiveRecord models for unit tests that run fast because they don’t need to load Rails or a database.
- DnsMock (⭐65) - 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 (⭐64) - 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 (⭐336) - 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 (⭐118) - Ruby wrapper around Apple's iTMSTransporter program.

linkedin (⭐757) - Provides an easy-to-use wrapper for LinkedIn's REST APIs.

Octokit - Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API.

ruby-gmail (⭐791) - 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 (⭐735) - 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.

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 (⭐7.6k) - 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.