awesome-rails-gem

Awesome Rails Gem

A collection of awesome Ruby Gems for Rails development.

The goal is to help every Rails developer to build an awesome Rails product/service.

• Rails Gem List
  • User
  • Active Record
  • Plugins
  • API
  • Email
  • File Uploading
  • Searching
  • Scheduled/Recurrence Jobs
  • View Helper
  • Environment Variables
  • Admin Panel
  • Logging
  • Debug
  • Coding Style
  • Testing
  • Production
  • Error Logging
  • Database

User

Authentication

• Devise - Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden.
• Knock - Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API.
• Clearance - Rails authentication with email & password.
• Devise token auth - Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs.
• Sorcery - Magical Authentication for Rails. Supports ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Mongoid and MongoMapper.

Authorization

• Pundit - Pundit provides a set of helpers which guide you in leveraging regular Ruby classes and object oriented design patterns to build a simple, robust and scaleable authorization system.
• cancancan - Continuation of CanCan, the authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.CanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access. All permissions are defined in a single location (the Ability class) and not duplicated across controllers, views, and database queries.
• rolify - Role management library with resource scoping.
• acl9 - Acl9 is a role-based authorization system that provides a concise DSL for securing your Rails application.

Omniauth

• omniauth-facebook
• omniauth-google-oauth2
• omniauth-weibo-oauth2
• omniauth-twitter
• omniauth-github
• omniauth-linkedin-oauth2

Active Record

• Enumerize - Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support. It can be integrated with Simple Form.
• counter_culture - Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app. Huge improvements over the Rails standard counter caches.
• custom_counter_cache - A simple approach to creating a custom counter cache that can be used across multiple models.
• Sequenced - Sequenced is a simple gem that generates scoped sequential IDs for ActiveRecord models.
• FriendlyId - FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.
• AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, Rails Active Record, Mongoid).
• PaperTrail - PaperTrail lets you track changes to your models' data. It's good for auditing or versioning.
• paranoia - ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.
• Validates - Validates provides collection of useful custom validators for Rails applications, including:
  • EmailValidator
  • UrlValidator
  • SlugValidator
  • MoneyValidator
  • IpValidator
  • AssociationLengthValidator
  • AbsolutePathValidator
  • UriComponentValidator
  • ColorValidator
  • EanValidator (EAN-8 & EAN-13)
• globalize - Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data translation.
• deep_cloneable - This gem gives every ActiveRecord::Base object the possibility to do a deep clone that includes user specified associations.
• social_shares - Check how many times url was shared in social networks.
• public_activity - Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity.
• goldiloader - Automatic ActiveRecord eager loading to reduce the number of database queries run by your application.
• Tagging
  • ActsAsTaggableOn - A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.
  • closure_tree - Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support hierarchies.
• ActionStore - Store different kind of actions (Like, Follow, Star, Block ...) in one table via ActiveRecord Polymorphic Association.

Plugins

• Spreadsheet - Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents.
• Chartkick - Chartkick helps your to create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby.
• kaminari - A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Rails 3 and 4.
• CKEditor - CKEditor is a WYSIWYG text editor designed to simplify web content creation. It brings common word processing features directly to your web pages. Enhance your website experience with our community maintained editor. ckeditor.com
• HTML::Pipeline - GitHub HTML processing filters and utilities. This module includes a small framework for defining DOM based content filters and applying them to user provided content.
• Slack Notifier is a simple wrapper to send notifications to Slack webhooks.
• Rails ERD - Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications.
• Parity - Shell commands for development, staging, and production parity for Heroku apps.
• Airbrussh - Airbrussh pretties up your SSHKit and Capistrano output

API

• Grape - Microframework to create REST-ful APIs in Ruby.
• ActiveModel::Serializers - Serializer brings convention over configuration to your JSON generation.
• Jbuilder - Jbuilder gives you a simple DSL for declaring JSON structures that beats massaging giant hash structures. This is particularly helpful when the generation process is fraught with conditionals and loops.
• rest-client - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
• has_scope - Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources.
• Documentation
  • Grape Swagger - Autogenerate documentation on Grape API.
  • Grape Swagger UI - Display documentation that is generated using Grape Swagger.
  • apiary - Work together to quickly design, prototype, document and test APIs.
  • apiblueprint - API Documentation with powerful tooling.

Email

• letter_opener - Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.

File Uploading

• Carrierwave - Carrierwave is a classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks.
  • carrierwave_backgrounder - Offload CarrierWave's image processing and storage to a background process using Delayed Job, Resque, Sidekiq, Qu, Queue Classic or Girl Friday.
  • CarrierWave Crop - Carrierwave extension to crop uploaded images using Jcrop plugin with preview.
  • CarrierWave ImageOptimizer - This gem allows you to simply optimize CarrierWave images via jpegoptim or optipng using the image_optimizer gem.
• remotipart - Rails jQuery file uploads via standard Rails "remote: true" forms.
• MiniMagick - MiniMagick is a ruby wrapper for ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick command line.
• fog - Fog is the Ruby cloud services library, top to bottom.
• refile - Refile is a modern file upload library for Ruby applications. It is simple, yet powerful.
• Paperclip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord.
• Dragonfly - Dragonfly is for on-the-fly file processing - suitable for images or other attachments
• shrine -File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

Searching

• ransack - Ransack enables the creation of both simple and advanced search forms for your Ruby on Rails application.
• elasticsearch-rails - Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails.
• Chewy - High-level Elasticsearch Ruby framework based on the official elasticsearch-ruby client.
• pg_search - pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL's full text search
• sunspot - Sunspot is a Ruby library for expressive, powerful interaction with the Solr search engine. Sunspot is built on top of the RSolr library, which provides a low-level interface for Solr interaction; Sunspot provides a simple, intuitive, expressive DSL backed by powerful features for indexing objects and searching for them.
• searchkick - Intelligent search made easy with Rails and Elasticsearch.

Scheduled/Recurrence Jobs

• Whenever - Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.
• Resque - Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
• Rufus-Scheduler - Rufus-scheduler is a Ruby gem for scheduling pieces of code (jobs). It understands running a job AT a certain time, IN a certain time, EVERY x time or simply via a CRON statement.
• Delayed Job - Database based asynchronous priority queue system.
• [Sidekiq](https://github.com/mperham/