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ActiveRecord without Rails

Projects that help in using ActiveRecord outside of a Rails project.

Rails Extensions

Extensions and Add-ons for the Ruby-on-Rails web-application framework

Rails Search Filters

Simplify Rails queries and filtering

Rails Tagging

Extend tags functionality for any rails app.

Rails Version Management

Tools for managing the Rails versions of new or existing apps

Calendars

A suite of libraries designed to seamlessly integrate calendar functionalities into Ruby on Rails applications.

Web Authentication

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

Rails Captcha

Captchas help to establish that a user is human to protect websites from bots and spam by presenting challenges that are hard to solve for computers

Rails DB Bootstrapping

Easily insert and maintain seed data in the database.

Rails Search Engines

Supports search engines and full-text search.
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A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.
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Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
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Databases on Rails. Build a persistent domain model by mapping database tables to Ruby classes. Strong conventions for associations, validations, aggregations, migrations, and testing come baked-in.
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Web apps on Rails. Simple, battle-tested conventions for building and testing MVC web applications. Works with any Rack-compatible server.
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Email on Rails. Compose, deliver, and test emails using the familiar controller/view pattern. First-class support for multipart email and attachments.
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This gem wraps the blueimp jQuery File Upload plugin as a Rails asset gem. The plugin is by Sebastian Tschan, and the gem is packaged by Mike Virata-Stone.
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Protect against typical web attacks, works with all Rack apps, including Rails
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Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden. Now with added support for changing email content_type yay!
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Erubis is an implementation of eRuby and has the following features: * Very fast, almost three times faster than ERB and about 10% faster than eruby. * Multi-language support (Ruby/PHP/C/Java/Scheme/Perl/Javascript) * Auto escaping support * Auto trimming spaces around '<% %>' * Embedded pattern changeable (default '<% %>') * Enable to handle Processing Instructions (PI) as embedded pattern (ex. '<?rb ... ?>') * Context object available and easy to combine eRuby template with YAML datafile * Print statement available * Easy to extend and customize in subclass * Ruby on Rails support
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A set of common locale data and translations to internationalize and/or localize your Rails applications.
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Kaminari is a Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, agnostic, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Rails 4+
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