Awesome Rails

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source rails related resources inspired by Awesome PHP.

Check also: https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby

• Awesome Rails
  • Package Management
  • Templating
  • Static Pages
  • HTTP
  • Crawlers and Scrapers
  • Email
  • ETL
  • Files
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Code Analysis
  • Assets Management
  • ActiveRecord
  • Geolocation
  • Date and Time
  • Feature Toggling
  • Logging
  • SEO
  • Meta
  • PDF
  • Performance
  • Analytics
  • Optimization
  • Production
  • Command Line
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Text and Numbers
  • Filtering and Validation
  • REST and API
  • Caching
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Parser
  • Third Party APIs
  • Miscellaneous
  • Development Software
  • WYSIWYG
  • Background Job
  • Visual Goodies
• Resources
  • Websites
  • Books
  • Web Reading
  • Rails Reading
• Contributing

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• Bundler - The best way to manage your application's dependencies.
• Bower Rails - A Bower support for Rails projects.

Templating

Libraries and tools for templating.

• Rails Composer - The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps.
• Rails Apps Composer - Build your own application template.

Static Pages

Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.

• HighVoltage - Rails engine for static pages.
• Refinery CMS - Rails-based CMS.
• Camaleon CMS - Rails-based CMS.

Dashboards

• Dashing - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework.
• Tasseo - Live dashboard for Graphite

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• Faraday - flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
• Typhoeus - wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
• Whois - An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser

Crawlers and Scrapers

Libraries for crawling/scraping the Web.

• Wombat - Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• MailCheck - Reduce user-misspelled email addresses in your forms.

ETL - Extract-Transform-Load

Data-processing libraries.

• Kiba - the ETL framework for Ruby.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• MimeMagic - A MIME detection library.
• Exporting CSV & Excel - RailsCast.
• Sitemap Generator - A sitemap generation library.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• MiniMagick - An image manipulation library.
• CarrierWave::BombShelter - is a module which protects your uploaders from image bombs. It checks pixel dimensions of uploaded image before ImageMagick touches it.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• RSpec - A testing tool for the Ruby programming language.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• SAMI - An API documentation generator.

Security

Libraries for security, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.

• Brakeman - Static analysis security scanner for Ruby on Rails.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• SimpleCov - Code Coverage.
• Excellent - Source Code analysis gem for Ruby and Rails.

Assets Management

Libraries and tools for Assets management.

• Non-stupid non-digest assets - compile both digest and non-digest assets in Rails 4.
• Rack Zippy - Rack middleware for serving static gzipped assets generated by the Rails asset pipeline

ActiveRecord

Libraries and tools for ActiveRecord tweaks.

• Obfuscate ID - Make your ActiveRecord ids non-obvious.
• Data Miner - import XLS, ODS, XML, CSV, HTML, etc. into the ActiveRecord models

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• GeoKit - Geokit plugin for Rails/ActiveRecord.
• Zip Codes - Identify city and States for given Zip code

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• Temporal - Javascript timezone detection for Rails

Feature Toggling

Libraries that are helping to manage features.

• Feature - A feature toggle library written in ruby
• Rollout - A feature flippers

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Lograge - Taming Rails' Default Request Logging

SEO

Libraries for SEO.

• Meta Tags - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin for Ruby on Rails applications.
• Human Power - Generate robots.txt

Meta

Libraries for MetaData.

• Preloadables - is exposing a set of view helpers for outputting HTML metadata related to domains, assets and pages that you would like to preload/prerender.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

• Prawn - A PDF generation library.
• Wicked PDF - A tool to convert HTML to PDF.
• Grimm - A tool for extracting pages from pdf as images and text as strings.

Performance

Libraries to dubug and solve performance issues

• Alocation Tracer - allows to trace object allocation.
• Memory Profiler - A memory profiler for Ruby & Rails apps.
• Derailed Benchmarks - Benchmarks for your whole Rails app.

Analytics

Libraries for user analytics.

• Marketable for Devise - Marketable lets Devise users easily store where your user came from and where they were going in your Rails app.
• Meta events - is a Ruby gem that sits on top of a user-centric analytics system like Mixpanel and provides structure, documentation, and a historical record to events, and a powerful properties system that makes it easy to pass large numbers of consistent properties with your events.

Optimization

Libraries to optimize your rails application.

• Counter Culture - Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app.
• OJ - A fast JSON parser and Object marshaller as a Ruby gem.

Production

Tools for production

• Errbit - error catcher
• Peek - Take a peek into your Rails applications

Command Line

Libraries for building command line utilities.

TBD

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Authorization

Libraries for implementing authorization schemes.

• Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes
• The Role - Authorization for Rails + GUI. Semantic, Flexible, Lightweight
• CanCanCan - CanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access.

Text and Numbers

Libraries for parsing and manipulating text and numbers.

TBD

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data.

• HTML5 Validator - client-side validation

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.

• Apipie - API Documentation Tool

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

TBD

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

TBD

Notifications

Libraries for working with notification software.

TBD

Deployment

• Capistrano - Remote multi-server automation tool.
• Capistrano Unicorn - Unicorn tasks for Capistrano.
• Capistrano Fifty Five - recipes for use with capistrano to automate installation of a full-stack Rails environment
• Airbrussh - pretties up your SSHKit and Capistrano output
• Pinglish - A simple Rack middleware for checking application health.

Parser

Libraries for parsing

• Parslet - A small Ruby library for constructing parsers in the PEG (Parsing Expression Grammar) fashion.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

TBD

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

TBD

Development Software

Software for creating a development environment.

• HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Chef - A systems integration framework.
• Backup - A server backup tool.

WYSIWIG

WYSIWIG editors

• Bootsy - is a WYSIWYG editor for Rails based on Bootstrap3-wysihtml5 with image uploads using CarrierWave
• Mercury Editor 2 - full featured HTML5 editor
• Froala jQuery WYSIWYG - (Comercial) provides the Froala WYSIWYG HTML Editor javascript and stylesheets as a Rails engine for use with the asset pipeline
• Sir Trevor - Medium like editor

Background Job

• Sidekiq Statistics - Improved display of statistics for your sidekiq workers and jobs.

Visual Goodies

Client side tools integrated with Rails

• NProgress - nprogress library progress bar wrapper

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your Rails development skills and knowledge.

Websites

Useful web and PHP-related websites and newsletters.

TBD

Books

Fantastic books and e-books.

TBD

Web Reading

General web-development-related reading materials.

• C is for Cookie, H is for Hacker - An article about cookies and security.
• You Blew It Loading Your Login Form Over HTTP - An article about using HTTPS correctly with login forms.
• How HTTPS Secures Your Connection - An article explaining how TLS/SSL secures your connection.
• How to Build a Secure Remember Me Feature - An article on how to build a secure remember me feature.
• A Beginners Guide to HTTP Cache Headers - An article about HTTP cache headers.
• Beyond Series 1 2 3 4 - A series of articles about programming by Anthony Ferrara.
• Semantic Versioning - A website explaining semantic versioning.
• Atlassian Git Tutorials - A series of Git tutorials.

Rails Reading

Rails-releated reading materials.

TBD

Credits

TravisCI validation code by jondot. Origin: https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.