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.

The catalog itself is available for contributions on GitHub.

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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.

Popular Categories 

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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

Test Frameworks

Frameworks for writing automated tests for your software

JSON Parsers

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

Amazon Web Services

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

HTTP clients

Easily interact with HTTP-based services

E-Mail Delivery

Easily send e-mails from your Ruby programs

Template Engines

Generate HTML and other markup based on dynamic content

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

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

File Uploads

Handle file uploads in Ruby-based web applications, including streamlined storage on cloud services, the extraction of file metadata and handling of post-processing tasks like resizing and cropping of images

CSS Tools

Tools to make working with Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) easier

Web Authentication

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

Log Analysis

Trending Projects

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deprecations_detector

A tool to display deprecations in a simple way on a single HTML page.
18,425
758.54%

pitchfork

`pitchfork` is a preforking HTTP server for Rack applications designed to minimize memory usage by maximizing Copy-on-Write performance.
27,863
103.51%

warning_signs

A gem for managing ruby and rails deprecation warnings
105,532
75.33%

gvltools

Set of GVL instrumentation tools
59,779
61.32%

cipherstash-pg

CipherStashPG is the Ruby interface to CipherStash-enhanced PostgresQL, based on PG. Known to work on Postgres 14+ (might work on older version)
21,244
57.63%

onlyoffice_testrail_wrapper

Wrapper for Testrail by OnlyOffice
24,177
37.93%

growthbook

Official GrowthBook SDK for Ruby
33,464
36.56%

litecable

Fat-free ActionCable implementation for using with AnyCable (and without Rails)
156,964
36.12%

Recently Added Categories 

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Finance

Projects related to finance, and the analysis and calculation of money

Debuggers

A debugger permits the ability to understand what is going on inside a program while it executes

Kubernetes

Rails Money, Currencies, Exchange Rates