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General Resources
Packages
- RubyGems – Find your packages here.
- bundler – 4.7k – Manage gem dependencies.
Ruby on Rails
- Rails – 44k – The famous web framework for Ruby.
- RailsAdmin – For managing the back-end of Ruby on Rails applications.
- Active Admin – 8.6k
- Active Emailer
- Active Job
- Action Mailbox – Routes incoming emails.
- Active Model
- Active Record
- Active Storage
- Action Text – Rich Text Editing.
- Active View
- Action Pack
- Action Cable
- Active Support
- Devise – Flexible authentication with Warden.
- paper_trail – 5.6k – Track changes to Rails models.
Static Generators
Web Frameworks
- Sinatra – 10.7k
- rack – 3.7k – Modular web server interface.
- faraday – 4.5k – HTTP/REST API client library
- sprockett – .7k – Rack-based asset packaging system.
- addressable – 1.2k – Alternative URI implementation.
- haml – 3.4k – HTML Abstraction Markup Language.
- will_paginate – 5.4k – Pagination.
- simple_form – 7.5k – Forms easily.
- grape – 8.9k – REST-API building framework.
Web Servers
Development, Testing, Etc.
Mail
- postal – 9.2k – mail delivery ingoing and outgoing.
Other
- i18n
- thor – for building CLIs
- tzinfo – for timezones
- concurrent-ruby
- dotenv – Load environment variables from .env files.
- sidekiq – 9.8k – background processing.
- resque – 8.6k – Redis backed library for creating background jobs, using multiple queues, etc.
- fluentd – 8.3k – Unified Logging Layer.
- whenever – 8.1k – Cron Jobs.
Popular Software Written in Ruby
- Discourse – 28.9k – forums.
- Vagrant – 18.8k – for creating and managing virtual machines for development.
- Homebrew – 18.8k – package manager for MacOS/Linux.
- Diaspora – 12.3k – distributed, privacy focused social network.
- Capistrano – 11.2k – remote, multi-server automation.
- Spree – 9.9k – ecommerce.
- Chef – 5.9k – Systems Integration Framework.