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.

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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

CSS Tools

Tools to make working with Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) easier

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

Web Authentication

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

Log Analysis

Trending Projects

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support_table_cache

Automatic ActiveRecord caching for small support tables.
166,256
438.2%

capture_migration_sql

Capture the SQL that is executed when running ActiveRecord migrations so that it can be run in in other environments that don't support migrations.
165,672
380.09%

wbconfigurator

Configuration tool for simple management with yaml files.
41,368
264.91%

smtp_mock

💎 Ruby SMTP mock. Mimic any SMTP server behaviour for your test environment.
14,042
167.65%

solargraph-rails

Add reflection on ActiveModel dynamic attributes that will be created at runtime
172,670
140.01%

bandwidth-sdk

The official client SDK for Bandwidht's Voice, Messaging, MFA, and WebRTC APIs
171,500
99.38%

graphql-anycable

A drop-in replacement for GraphQL ActionCable subscriptions for AnyCable.
168,266
97.32%

memory

Memory profiling routines for Ruby 2.3+
10,164
94.67%

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Rails Money, Currencies, Exchange Rates

Money, Currencies, Exchange Rates

Accounting

Machine Learning

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