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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

• Peek - Take a peek into your Rails applications

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

Deployment

• 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

WYSIWIG

WYSIWIG editors

• 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.