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A categorized community-driven collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software. The essential Ruby to build modern Apps and Web Apps.
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Admin Interface
- ActiveAdmin - A Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
- ActiveScaffold - ActiveScaffold provides quick and powerful user interfaces for CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations for Rails applications. It's excellent for generating admin interfaces, managing Data-Heavy Applications, creating Widgets or for quick prototyping. ActiveScaffold is completly customizable and offers a bunch of additional features including searching, pagination, layout control and overrides of fields, forms and templates.
- Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard, by Thoughtbot.
- Avo Admin for Rails - Avo is the modern approach to building an advanced admin panel that can be used by the entire organization. It has all the tools an admin panel needs and more. We have carefully made sure that you have all the escape hatches you need to ensure you can build your next admin panel for Ruby on Rails incredibly fast and easily.
- bhf - A simple to use Rails-Engine-Gem that offers an admin interface for trusted user.
- Hot Glue - Hot Glue takes a different approach to building both admin and user dashboards. It is a code generation tool like the Rails scaffold generator but with significantly more features. Instead of providing a lot of configuration options, Hot Glue can generate your code. Good for lists & CRUD views for both admin and user-facing dashboards.
- MotorAdmin - A low-code Admin panel and Business Intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI.
- RailsAdmin - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.
- Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Rails. Build a back-end in minutes that will grow with the needs of your application.
Analytics
- ActiveAnalytics - First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications.
- Ahoy - A solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.
- Impressionist - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views.
- Legato - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.
- Rack::Tracker - Rack middleware that can be hooked up to multiple services and exposing them in a unified fashion.
- Staccato - Track analytics into the official Google Analytics Collection API.
API Builder and Discovery
- ActiveModel::Serializers - JSON serialization of objects.
- Acts_As_Api - Easy And Fun, in creating XML/JSON responses in Rails 3,4,5 and 6.
- Alba - A JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.
- Blanket - A dead simple API wrapper.
- Blueprinter - Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby.
- cache_crispies - Speedy Rails JSON serialization with built-in caching.
- Crepe - The thin API stack.
- Grape - An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
- Her - an ORM that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. Designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.
- jbuilder - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.
- jsonapi-rb – Efficient and convenient JSON API (de)serialization library.
- jsonapi-serializer - A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby Objects.
- JSONAPI::Resources - JSONAPI::Resources, or "JR", provides a framework for developing a server that complies with the JSON API specification.
- JSONAPI::Utils - JSONAPI::Utils is built on top of JSONAPI::Resources taking advantage of its resource-driven style and bringing an easy way to build modern JSON APIs with no or less learning curve.
- Jsonite - A tiny, HAL-compliant JSON presenter for your APIs.
- Pliny - Opinionated template Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.
- rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support.
- Roar - Resource-Oriented Architectures in Ruby.
- Spyke - Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner.
- Version Cake - An unobtrusive way to version APIs in your Rails app.
- versionist - A plugin for versioning Rails based RESTful APIs.
Assets
- Asset Sync - Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3.
- Autoprefixer - Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules by Can I Use.
- Bourbon - A Lightweight Sass Tool Set.
- bower-rails - Bower support for Rails projects.
- Emoji - Exposes the Phantom Open Emoji library unicode/image assets and APIs for working with them.
- Less Rails - The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails asset pipeline.
- Rails Assets - Bundler to Bower proxy.
- Sass - Sass makes CSS fun again.
- Shakapacker - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails. (Official and actively maintained successor to rails/webpacker)
- Sprockets - Rack-based asset packaging system.
- Torba - Bower-less bundler for Sprockets.
- Vite Ruby - Use Vite.js as a modern assets pipeline in Ruby and Rails apps.
Authentication and OAuth
- API Guard - JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs.
- Authentication Zero - An authentication system generator for Rails applications.
- Authlogic - Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.
- Clearance - Small and simple email & password based authentication for Rails.
- Devise - A flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden.
- JWT - JSON Web Token implementation in Ruby.
- Monban - A very simple and extensible user authentication library for rails.
- OmniAuth - A library that standardizes multi-provider authentication utilizing Rack middleware.
- Rodauth - Authentication and account management framework for Rack applications.
- Sorcery - A stripped-down, bare-bones authentication library for Rails.
- warden - General Rack Authentication Framework.
- OAuth:
- Doorkeeper - An OAuth2 provider for Rails.
- OAuth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol.
- Rodauth-Oauth - A rodauth OAuth and OpenID provider plugin.
Authorization
- acl9 - Acl9 is a role-based authorization system that provides a concise DSL for securing your Rails application.
- AccessGranted - Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails.
- ActionPolicy - Authorization framework for Ruby and Rails applications. Composable, extensible and performant.
- CanCanCan - Continuation of CanCan, an authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
- Consul - A scope-based authorization solution for Ruby on Rails.
- Petergate - Easy to use and read action and content based authorizations.
- Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes.
Automation
- ActiveWorkflow - An intelligent process and workflow automation platform based on software agents.
- Danger - Automate your team's conventions surrounding code review.
- Huginn - Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online.
- Neovim - Ruby bindings for Neovim to make your own neovim editor plugins in Ruby.
- Runbook - A framework and Ruby DSL for progressive system automation.
Breadcrumbs
- Breadcrumbs on Rails - A simple Ruby on Rails plugin for creating and managing a breadcrumb navigation for a Rails project.
- Gretel - A Ruby on Rails plugin that makes