Find actively maintained & popular open source software libraries for the Ruby programming language

The Ruby Toolbox is a catalog of all Rubygems that keeps track of popularity and health metrics to help you choose a reliable library

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To give you an overview of what open source libraries are available for a given task we group projects for common problems into categories.

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With our search you can find Ruby open source libraries beyond what is listed in our categories.

We index all Rubygems published on Rubygems.org.

Project Popularity

We sort projects based on their popularity in the Ruby community - Rubygem downloads as well as popularity of the source code repository on GitHub.

This helps to identify projects that have a big user base, which is an indicator of project stability, maturity and maintenance.

Project Health

We assess the maintenance status of projects based on recent activity like package releases, commit activity or open issue counts and display colored indicators based on that.

This gives you a quick overview of the health of a project.

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Web App Frameworks

Software Frameworks that are designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs

Scripting Frameworks

Libraries that simplify the writing of command-line interfaces for your Ruby programs

JSON Parsers

JSON parsers convert data serialized in the popular JSON data exchange format to and from Ruby objects

Test Frameworks

Frameworks for writing automated tests for your software

Template Engines

Generate HTML and other markup based on dynamic content

HTTP clients

Easily interact with HTTP-based services

Amazon Web Services

Official and community-built utilities for working with Amazon's AWS cloud services

E-Mail Delivery

Easily send e-mails from your Ruby programs

JavaScript Tools

Utilities for working with JavaScript in Ruby

Browser testing

Write and run automated tests of your web app in a real-world browser environment

CSS Tools

Tools to make working with Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) easier

Ruby Core Extensions

Libraries that enhance Ruby's core classes like Hash or String with additional features

Concurrent Processing

Tools that simplify the writing of concurrent Ruby programs

Web Servers

Expose HTTP-based services from Ruby. Usually these are used with a rack-based Ruby web framework.

Web Authentication

Handle the authentication of users in web applications written in frameworks like Rails

SQL Database Adapters

Low-level adapters for interfacing with various SQL database servers

Trending Projects

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datadog_api_client

Collection of all Datadog Public API endpoints.
179,112
4,064.26%

atomic_cache

A gem which prevents the thundering herd problem through a distributed lock
11,914
443.23%

theme-check

A Shopify Theme Linter
20,885
166.1%

onlyoffice_language_helper

ONLYOFFICE Helper Gem for language operation. Used in QA
15,533
130.72%

licensed

Licensed automates extracting and validating the licenses of dependencies.
367,712
107.27%

async-websocket

An async websocket library on top of websocket-driver.
161,066
102.33%

multi_range

Allow you to manipulate a group of ranges. Such as merging overlapping ranges, doing ranges union, intersection, difference, and so on.
14,420
90.03%

onlyoffice_api

Ruby Framework to interact with OnlyOffice API 2.0
19,428
66.03%

Recently Added Categories 

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Machine Learning

Libraries and Frameworks to train and apply machine learning models to general problems

Avatars

Tools to generate and display user avatars

Moving Data

Tools for moving data between databases

Visualization

Projects for visualizing data