friendly_id by norman

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.

created at April 18, 2008, 1:16 p.m.

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simplecov by simplecov-ruby

Code coverage for Ruby with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites

created at Aug. 15, 2010, 3:28 p.m.

Ruby

64 +0

4,711 +3

552 +0

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paper_trail by paper-trail-gem

Track changes to your rails models

created at May 27, 2009, 3:20 p.m.

Ruby

66 +0

6,704 +4

876 +0

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goldiloader by salsify

Just the right amount of Rails eager loading

created at June 12, 2014, 3:13 p.m.

Ruby

66 +1

1,545 +1

51 +0

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clearance by thoughtbot

Rails authentication with email & password.

created at Sept. 24, 2008, 7:57 p.m.

Ruby

70 -1

3,674 +2

454 +1

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dotenv by bkeepers

A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`.

created at July 24, 2012, 3:38 a.m.

Ruby

70 +0

6,507 -1

498 +0

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formtastic by formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.

created at April 7, 2008, 11:18 a.m.

Ruby

71 +0

5,195 -1

629 +0

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html-pipeline by gjtorikian

HTML processing filters and utilities

created at Aug. 1, 2012, 6:07 p.m.

Ruby

74 +1

2,261 +0

378 +0

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delayed_job by collectiveidea

Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify

created at Sept. 13, 2008, 2:27 p.m.

Ruby

75 +0

4,801 -1

955 +0

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vcr by vcr

Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

created at Feb. 25, 2010, 7:16 a.m.

Ruby

76 -1

5,756 +6

497 +0

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page-object by cheezy

Gem to implement PageObject pattern in watir-webdriver and selenium-webdriver

created at May 10, 2011, 3:37 p.m.

Ruby

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active_model_serializers by rails-api

ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks

created at Dec. 1, 2011, 6:39 a.m.

Ruby

80 +0

5,316 +0

1,394 +1

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rails_best_practices by flyerhzm

a code metric tool for rails projects

created at Nov. 3, 2009, 1:41 p.m.

Ruby

80 +0

4,145 +1

278 +0

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acts-as-taggable-on by mbleigh

A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts.

created at March 21, 2008, 7:07 p.m.

Ruby

80 +0

4,950 +0

1,181 -1

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capybara-webkit by thoughtbot

A Capybara driver for headless WebKit to test JavaScript web apps

created at Feb. 25, 2011, 3:46 a.m.

Ruby

83 +0

1,976 +0

430 +0

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shoulda-matchers by thoughtbot

Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality

created at Dec. 15, 2010, 10:41 p.m.

Ruby

83 +0

3,476 +4

907 +0

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spring by rails

Rails application preloader

created at Dec. 29, 2012, 3:53 a.m.

Ruby

85 +0

2,798 +1

337 +1

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mina by mina-deploy

Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

created at June 1, 2012, 9:32 a.m.

Ruby

88 +0

4,325 -3

493 +0

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jbuilder by rails

Jbuilder: generate JSON objects with a Builder-style DSL

created at Nov. 27, 2011, 2:02 p.m.

Ruby

89 +0

4,309 +1

424 +1

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errbit by errbit

The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant

created at Aug. 4, 2010, 4:08 a.m.

Ruby

91 +0

4,229 +1

998 +0

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