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.

62 +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.

72 +0

5,205 -1

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pundit by varvet

Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes

created at Nov. 4, 2012, 9:20 a.m.

104 +0

8,295 +6

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aasm by aasm

AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)

created at Feb. 28, 2008, 8:40 p.m.

60 +0

5,031 +3

637 +1

cancancan by CanCanCommunity

The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

created at Feb. 19, 2014, 6:26 p.m.

96 +0

5,591 +0

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whenever by javan

Cron jobs in Ruby

created at Feb. 16, 2009, 3:19 a.m.

115 +0

8,832 +1

726 -1

brakeman by presidentbeef

A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications

created at Aug. 27, 2010, midnight

166 +0

7,015 +2

732 -2

searchkick by ankane

Intelligent search made easy

created at July 15, 2013, 1:44 a.m.

104 +0

6,556 +2

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elasticsearch-rails by elastic

Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails

created at Nov. 8, 2013, 5 p.m.

398 +0

3,075 +0

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ransack by activerecord-hackery

Object-based searching.

created at March 31, 2011, 12:34 a.m.

93 +0

5,680 +5

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ckeditor by galetahub

Ckeditor 4.x integration gem for rails

created at June 23, 2011, 3:04 p.m.

60 +0

2,230 +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.

65 -1

6,786 +3

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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.

81 +0

3,524 +1

909 -1

sunspot by sunspot

Solr-powered search for Ruby objects

created at Oct. 13, 2008, 3:46 p.m.

33 +0

2,980 +0

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rest-client by rest-client

Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.

created at Dec. 7, 2009, 7:34 p.m.

106 +0

5,235 -2

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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.

74 +0

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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.

91 +0

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rspec-rails by rspec

RSpec for Rails 6+

created at Dec. 23, 2009, 4:40 p.m.

92 +0

5,182 +2

1,037 +2

administrate by thoughtbot

A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

created at April 10, 2015, 4:43 p.m.

87 +0

5,898 +3

1,124 +3

devise_token_auth by lynndylanhurley

Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth.

created at June 29, 2014, 10:43 p.m.

55 +0

3,546 +0

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