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Faraday
Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for backends
Faraday is an HTTP client library abstraction layer 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. You probably don't want to use Faraday directly in your project, as it will lack an actual client library to perform requests. Instead, you probably want to have a look at Awesome Faraday for a list of available adapters. The best starting point is the Faraday Website, with its introduction and explanation. This library aims to support and is tested against the currently officially supported Ruby implementations. This means that, even without a major release, we could add or drop support for Ruby versions, following their EOL. Currently that means we support Ruby 2.6+. You can also install the faraday_middleware extension gem to access a collection of useful Faraday middleware. -
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Mechanize
Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy
The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as a history. This library was heavily influenced by its namesake in the Perl world. Mechanize#transact runs the given block and then resets the page history. I.e. after the block has been executed, you're back at the original page; no need to count how many times to call the back method at the end of a loop (while accounting for possible exceptions). -
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Bourbon
A lightweight sass tool set
Bourbon is a library of Sass mixins and functions that are designed to make you a more efficient style sheet author. It’s not recommended that you modify Bourbon’s files directly as it will make updating to future versions difficult, by overwriting your custom changes or causing merge conflicts. Import Bourbon at the beginning of application.scss. Any project styles that utilize Bourbon’s features must be imported after Bourbon. Bourbon supports Internet Explorer 11+ and the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Bourbon is maintained by the thoughtbot design team. It is funded by thoughtbot, inc. and the names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc. You can target installation into a specific directory using the path flag. Bourbon is copyright © 2011-2020 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the license. -
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factory_bot
A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data
factory_bot is a fixtures replacement with a straightforward definition syntax, support for multiple build strategies (saved instances, unsaved instances, attribute hashes, and stubbed objects), and support for multiple factories for the same class (user, admin_user, and so on), including factory inheritance. factory_bot provides a framework and DSL for defining and using factories - less error-prone, more explicit, and all-around easier to work with than fixtures. Each factory has a name and a set of attributes. The name is used to guess the class of the object by default. It is recommended that you have one factory for each class that provides the simplest set of attributes necessary to create an instance of that class. If you're creating ActiveRecord objects, that means that you should only provide attributes that are required through validations and that do not have defaults. Other factories can be created through inheritance to cover common scenarios for each class. -
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Dependabot
Dependabot's core logic for creating update PR's
Dependabot-Core is the library at the heart of Dependabot security/version updates. Use it to generate automated pull requests updating dependencies for projects written in Ruby, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Dart, Elixir, Elm, Go, Rust, Java and .NET. It can also update git submodules, Docker files, and Terraform files. Check for the latest version of a dependency that's resolvable given a project's other dependencies. Generate updated manifest and lockfiles for a new dependency version. Generate PR descriptions that include the updated dependency's changelogs, release notes, and commits. -
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Rein
Database constraints made easy for ActiveRecord
Data integrity is a good thing. Constraining the values allowed by your application at the database level, rather than at the application level, is a more robust way of ensuring your data stays sane. Unfortunately, ActiveRecord doesn't encourage (or even allow) you to use database integrity without resorting to hand-crafted SQL. Rein (pronounced "rain") adds a handful of methods to your ActiveRecord migrations so that you can easily tame the data in your database. All methods in the DSL are automatically reversible, so you can take advantage of reversible Rails migrations. -
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Pedestal
The Pedestal Server-side Libraries
Pedestal is a set of libraries that we use to build services and applications. It runs in the back end and can serve up whole HTML pages or handle API requests. There are a lot of tools in that space, so why did we build Pedestal? We had two main reasons. Pedestal is designed for APIs first. Most web app frameworks still focus on the "page model" and server-side rendering. Pedestal lets you start simple and add that if you need it. Pedestal makes it easy to create "live" applications. Applications must respond with immediate feedback even while some back-end communication goes on. Pedestal makes it easy to deliver server-sent events and asynchronous updates. Pedestal works with a huge variety of containers and deployment options. Deploy applications or microservices on unikernels, Docker containers, or JAR files. Pedestal supports Tomcat, Jetty, Immutant (with Undertow), Vert.x, nginx, and Netty. -
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Asciidoctor PDF
Asciidoctor PDF: A native PDF converter for AsciiDoc
A fast text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more. Asciidoctor is a fast, open source, Ruby-based text processor for parsing AsciiDoc® into a document model and converting it to output formats such as HTML 5, DocBook 5, manual pages, PDF, EPUB 3, and other formats. Asciidoctor also has an ecosystem of extensions, converters, build plugins, and tools to help you author and publish content written in AsciiDoc. -
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Phonelib
Ruby gem for phone validation and formatting
Phonelib is a Ruby gem that provides phone number validation and formatting capabilities by leveraging Google's libphonenumber library. It enables developers to parse, validate, and format international phone numbers within Ruby applications. -
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Redis Store
Cache Redis stores for Ruby web frameworks
Redis Store provides a full set of stores (Cache, I18n, Session, HTTP Cache) for modern Ruby frameworks like: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Rack, Rack::Cache and I18n. It supports object marshaling, timeouts, single or multiple nodes, and namespaces. -
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XSpear
Powerfull XSS Scanning and Parameter analysis tool&gem
XSpear is an XSS Scanner on ruby gems. Powerful XSS Scanning and Parameter analysis tool&gem. -
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Learning-SICP
Collection of Chinese cultural projects and course learning materials
Learning-SICP is a community project that localizes the MIT course “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” (SICP) and curates complementary study materials for learners, especially Chinese-speaking Scheme/Lisp students. It focuses on translating the official lecture subtitles into Chinese while preserving the original English content for reference, providing an approachable path to a classic foundational course in computer science. The repository organizes translated subtitles, lecture indices, and supporting documents so learners can follow along with the full video series and consult the book and related readings as they study. Beyond subtitles, it aggregates links to the SICP text, environment setup guides, extended exercises, and FAQ resources to smooth first-time setup and deepen understanding of the material. -
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Opal jQuery
jQuery for Opal
opal-jquery provides DOM access to opal by wrapping jQuery (or zepto) and providing a nice ruby syntax for dealing with jQuery instances. opal-jquery provides an Element class, whose instances are toll-free bridged instances of jQuery objects. Just like ruby arrays are just javascript arrays, Element instances are just jQuery objects. This makes interaction with jQuery plugins much easier. Also, Element will try to bridge with Zepto if it cannot find jQuery loaded, making it ideal for mobile applications as well. The request is actually triggered inside the HTTP. get method, but due to the async nature of the request, the callback and errback handlers can be added anytime before the request returns. -
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Server configuration
Docker Compose with Traefik and lots of services
Your (my) own server configuration, managed by docker-compose, with the comprehensive default configuration. -
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Awesome Print
Pretty print your Ruby objects with style
Awesome Print is a Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in full color exposing their internal structure with proper indentation. Rails ActiveRecord objects and usage within Rails templates are supported via included mixins. -
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Linguist
Detect blob languages, suppress generated files and generate graphs
This library is used on GitHub.com to detect blob languages, ignore binary or vendored files, suppress generated files in diffs, and generate language breakdown graphs. Linguist is a Ruby library so you will need a recent version of Ruby installed. There are known problems with the macOS/XCode supplied version of Ruby that causes problems installing some of the dependencies. Accordingly, we highly recommend you install a version of Ruby using Homebrew, rbenv, rvm, ruby-build, asdf or other packaging system, before attempting to install Linguist and the dependencies. Linguist uses charlock_holmes for character encoding and rugged for libgit2 bindings for Ruby. These components have their own dependencies. A repository's languages stats can also be assessed from the command line using the github-linguist executable. Without any options, github-linguist will output the breakdown that correlates to what is shown in the language stats bar. -
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Resque
Ruby library for creating background jobs and processing them
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. Resque (pronounced like "rescue") is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both. Resque is heavily inspired by DelayedJob (which rocks) and comprises three parts, a Ruby library for creating, querying, and processing jobs, a Rake task for starting a worker which processes jobs, a Sinatra app for monitoring queues, jobs, and workers. Resque workers can be distributed between multiple machines, support priorities, are resilient to memory bloat / "leaks," are optimized for REE (but work on MRI and JRuby), tell you what they're doing, and expect failure. -
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Rpg.NET
Performance enhancement API for RPG Maker XP, VX, VXA.
Rpg.NET is an API built using the .NET Framework for both improving performance and enhancing the RPG Maker series (XP, VX, and VXA). Contained within are various functions and classes that extend the ability of RPG Maker in areas such as graphics, audio, and Windows API interop. Included is a Ruby script that is the wrapper around the library, so it can be used as any other script within your game. -
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A collection of open source libraries and tools that provide solutions for common problems in processing Arabic text, especially in web applications. text normalization, phrase segmentation, text indexing, stop word lists, common spelling mistakes.
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CanCan
Authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails
CanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails that helps manage user permissions in a clean and consistent way. It centralizes all authorization logic in a single Ability class, where you define what actions each type of user can or cannot perform on different resources. Developers then use helpers like authorize! in controllers or can? in views to enforce those rules without scattering permission logic across the application. It supports defining permissions using conditions, allowing granular access based on attributes like ownership or role. Because it abstracts authorization cleanly, applications stay easier to read, test, and maintain as business rules evolve. Though no longer actively maintained in its original form, CanCan inspired forks and successors (such as CanCanCan) that continue to be widely used in Rails projects. -
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Chartkick
Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby
Chartkick is a Ruby gem that makes it easy to generate beautiful charts in Rails and other Ruby applications with minimal code. It provides a high-level API where developers can use simple helpers like line_chart, pie_chart, or column_chart and pass in data arrays or ActiveRecord queries. Under the hood, it works with popular charting libraries such as Google Charts, Chart.js, and Highcharts, but hides their verbose JavaScript APIs behind a clean Ruby interface. It also handles things like automatic labels, legends, colors, and responsiveness without requiring you to manually configure chart options. Because of its integration with ActiveRecord, developers can quickly visualize trends in their application’s data with minimal transformation. Chartkick is especially valued in dashboards, reporting tools, and admin panels where quick, maintainable visualization is needed without heavy front-end development. -
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DYI
DYI is a 2D graphics library, very rich and expressive.
DYI is a 2D graphics library, very rich and expressive. DYI have been optimized for SVG format, but it is also possible to output other format; for example, EPS. -
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DYI for Rails
"DYI for Rails" is a library for use DYI on Rails.
"DYI for Rails" is a library for use DYI on Rails. "DYI for Rails" provides some helpers and module for drawing a image of DYI. -
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Down
Streaming downloads using Net::HTTP, http.rb or HTTPX
Down is a small, reliable Ruby library for downloading files that favors correctness, streaming, and clear error handling. It follows redirects safely, supports timeouts and retries, and streams responses to disk to keep memory usage low—ideal for large downloads or server environments. The API returns file-like objects (often Tempfile) with helpful metadata such as original filename and content type, which plays nicely with file-attachment libraries and background jobs. Multiple HTTP backends are supported, letting you choose between Net::HTTP or faster/feature-rich clients while keeping a consistent interface. It exposes distinct exception classes and content validation options, so callers can differentiate transient network issues from invalid responses. In practice, Down is often used as the dependable download layer in upload/processing pipelines where robustness matters more than raw feature bloat.
