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<h1 id="awesome-rails-gem-awesome">Awesome Rails Gem <a
href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome"><img
src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg"
alt="Awesome" /></a></h1>
<p>A collection of awesome Ruby Gems for Rails development.</p>
<p>The goal is to help every Rails developer to build an awesome Rails
product/service.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#rails-gem-list">Rails Gem List</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#user">User</a></li>
<li><a href="#active-record">Active Record</a></li>
<li><a href="#plugins">Plugins</a></li>
<li><a href="#api">API</a></li>
<li><a href="#email">Email</a></li>
<li><a href="#file-uploading">File Uploading</a></li>
<li><a href="#searching">Searching</a></li>
<li><a href="#scheduledrecurrence-jobs">Scheduled/Recurrence
Jobs</a></li>
<li><a href="#view-helper">View Helper</a></li>
<li><a href="#environment-variables">Environment Variables</a></li>
<li><a href="#admin-panel">Admin Panel</a></li>
<li><a href="#logging">Logging</a></li>
<li><a href="#debug">Debug</a></li>
<li><a href="#coding-style">Coding Style</a></li>
<li><a href="#testing">Testing</a></li>
<li><a href="#production">Production</a></li>
<li><a href="#error-logging">Error Logging</a></li>
<li><a href="#database">Database</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="user">User</h2>
<h3 id="authentication">Authentication</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/">Devise</a> -
Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on
Warden.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nsarno/knock">Knock</a> - Seamless JWT
authentication for Rails API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance">Clearance</a> -
Rails authentication with email &amp; password.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth">Devise token
auth</a> - Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Sorcery/sorcery">Sorcery</a> - Magical
Authentication for Rails. Supports ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Mongoid and
MongoMapper.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="authorization">Authorization</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/elabs/pundit">Pundit</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan">cancancan</a>
- 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/RolifyCommunity/rolify">rolify</a> -
Role management library with resource scoping.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/be9/acl9/">acl9</a> - Acl9 is a
role-based authorization system that provides a concise DSL for securing
your Rails application.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="omniauth">Omniauth</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/mkdynamic/omniauth-facebook">omniauth-facebook</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/zquestz/omniauth-google-oauth2">omniauth-google-oauth2</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/beenhero/omniauth-weibo-oauth2">omniauth-weibo-oauth2</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/arunagw/omniauth-twitter">omniauth-twitter</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/intridea/omniauth-github">omniauth-github</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/decioferreira/omniauth-linkedin-oauth2">omniauth-linkedin-oauth2</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="active-record">Active Record</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/brainspec/enumerize">Enumerize</a> -
Enumerated attributes with I18n and ActiveRecord/Mongoid support. It can
be integrated with Simple Form.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/magnusvk/counter_culture">counter_culture</a> -
Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app. Huge improvements over
the Rails standard counter caches.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/cedric/custom_counter_cache">custom_counter_cache</a>
- A simple approach to creating a custom counter cache that can be used
across multiple models.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/djreimer/sequenced">Sequenced</a> -
Sequenced is a simple gem that generates scoped sequential IDs for
ActiveRecord models.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/norman/friendly_id">FriendlyId</a> -
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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/aasm/aasm">AASM</a> - State machines for
Ruby classes (plain Ruby, Rails Active Record, Mongoid).</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail">PaperTrail</a> -
PaperTrail lets you track changes to your models’ data. It’s good for
auditing or versioning.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia">paranoia</a> -
ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without
actually deleting them.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kaize/validates">Validates</a> -
Validates provides collection of useful custom validators for Rails
applications, including:
<ul>
<li>EmailValidator</li>
<li>UrlValidator</li>
<li>SlugValidator</li>
<li>MoneyValidator</li>
<li>IpValidator</li>
<li>AssociationLengthValidator</li>
<li>AbsolutePathValidator</li>
<li>UriComponentValidator</li>
<li>ColorValidator</li>
<li>EanValidator (EAN-8 &amp; EAN-13)</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/globalize/globalize">globalize</a> -
Rails I18n de-facto standard library for ActiveRecord model/data
translation.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/moiristo/deep_cloneable">deep_cloneable</a> -
This gem gives every ActiveRecord::Base object the possibility to do a
deep clone that includes user specified associations.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Timrael/social_shares">social_shares</a>
- Check how many times url was shared in social networks.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/chaps-io/public_activity">public_activity</a> -
Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github’s Public
Activity.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/salsify/goldiloader">goldiloader</a> -
Automatic ActiveRecord eager loading to reduce the number of database
queries run by your application.</li>
<li>Tagging
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on">ActsAsTaggableOn</a>
- A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging
along dynamic contexts.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mceachen/closure_tree">closure_tree</a>
- Easily and efficiently make your ActiveRecord models support
hierarchies.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/rails-engine/action-store">ActionStore</a> -
Store different kind of actions (Like, Follow, Star, Block …) in one
table via ActiveRecord Polymorphic Association.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="plugins">Plugins</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/zdavatz/spreadsheet">Spreadsheet</a> -
Library is designed to read and write Spreadsheet Documents.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ankane/chartkick">Chartkick</a> -
Chartkick helps your to create beautiful Javascript charts with one line
of Ruby.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari">kaminari</a> - A
Scope &amp; Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and
sophisticated paginator for Rails 3 and 4.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/galetahub/ckeditor">CKEditor</a> -
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. <a href="http://ckeditor.com">ckeditor.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jch/html-pipeline">HTML::Pipeline</a> -
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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/stevenosloan/slack-notifier">Slack
Notifier</a> is a simple wrapper to send notifications to <a
href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a> webhooks.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/voormedia/rails-erd">Rails ERD</a> -
Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/parity">Parity</a> - Shell
commands for development, staging, and production parity for Heroku
apps.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mattbrictson/airbrussh">Airbrussh</a> -
Airbrussh pretties up your SSHKit and Capistrano output</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="api">API</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape">Grape</a> -
Microframework to create REST-ful APIs in Ruby.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers">ActiveModel::Serializers</a>
- Serializer brings convention over configuration to your JSON
generation.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rails/jbuilder">Jbuilder</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client">rest-client</a>
- Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework
syntax for specifying actions.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/has_scope">has_scope</a> -
Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your
resources.</li>
<li>Documentation
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape-swagger">Grape
Swagger</a> - Autogenerate documentation on Grape API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui">Grape Swagger
UI</a> - Display documentation that is generated using Grape
Swagger.</li>
<li><a href="https://apiary.io/">apiary</a> - Work together to quickly
design, prototype, document and test APIs.</li>
<li><a href="https://apiblueprint.org">apiblueprint</a> - API
Documentation with powerful tooling.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="email">Email</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener">letter_opener</a> -
Preview mail in the browser instead of sending.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="file-uploading">File Uploading</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave">Carrierwave</a>
- Carrierwave is a classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra
and other Ruby web frameworks.
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/lardawge/carrierwave_backgrounder">carrierwave_backgrounder</a>
- Offload CarrierWave’s image processing and storage to a background
process using Delayed Job, Resque, Sidekiq, Qu, Queue Classic or Girl
Friday.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/kirtithorat/carrierwave-crop/">CarrierWave
Crop</a> - Carrierwave extension to crop uploaded images using Jcrop
plugin with preview.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/jtescher/carrierwave-imageoptimizer">CarrierWave
ImageOptimizer</a> - This gem allows you to simply optimize CarrierWave
images via jpegoptim or optipng using the image_optimizer gem.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/JangoSteve/remotipart">remotipart</a> -
Rails jQuery file uploads via standard Rails “remote: true” forms.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick">MiniMagick</a> -
MiniMagick is a ruby wrapper for ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick command
line.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/fog/fog">fog</a> - Fog is the Ruby cloud
services library, top to bottom.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/refile/refile">refile</a> - Refile is a
modern file upload library for Ruby applications. It is simple, yet
powerful.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip">Paperclip</a> -
Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord.</li>
<li><a href="http://markevans.github.io/dragonfly">Dragonfly</a> -
Dragonfly is for on-the-fly file processing - suitable for images or
other attachments</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/janko-m/shrine">shrine</a> -File
Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="searching">Searching</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack">ransack</a> -
Ransack enables the creation of both simple and advanced search forms
for your Ruby on Rails application.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-rails">elasticsearch-rails</a>
- Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on
Rails.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/toptal/chewy">Chewy</a> - High-level
Elasticsearch Ruby framework based on the official elasticsearch-ruby
client.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search">pg_search</a> -
pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of
PostgreSQL’s full text search</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot">sunspot</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ankane/searchkick">searchkick</a> -
Intelligent search made easy with Rails and Elasticsearch.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="scheduledrecurrence-jobs">Scheduled/Recurrence Jobs</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/javan/whenever">Whenever</a> - Whenever
is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying
cron jobs.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/resque/resque">Resque</a> - Redis-backed
Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple
queues, and processing them later.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler">Rufus-Scheduler</a>
- 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job">Delayed
Job</a> - Database based asynchronous priority queue system.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq">Sidekiq</a> - Simple,
efficient background processing for Ruby.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/tobiassvn/sidetiq">sidetiq</a> -
Recurring jobs for sidekiq.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/ondrejbartas/sidekiq-cron">sidekiq-cron</a> -
Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/Moove-it/sidekiq-scheduler">sidekiq-scheduler</a>
- Lightweight job scheduler extension for Sidekiq</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/brandonhilkert/sucker_punch">Sucker
Punch</a> - Sucker punch is a single-process Ruby asynchronous
processing library.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="view-helper">View Helper</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic">formtastic</a>
- Formtastic is a Rails FormBuilder DSL (with some other goodies) to
make it far easier to create beautiful, semantically rich, syntactically
awesome, readily stylable and wonderfully accessible HTML forms in your
Rails applications</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form">Simple
Form</a> - Simple form aims to be as flexible as possible while helping
you with powerful components to create your forms. The basic goal of
Simple Form is to not touch your way of defining the layout, letting you
find the better design for your eyes.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryanb/nested_form">Nested Form</a> -
This is a Rails gem for conveniently manage multiple nested models in a
single form. It does so in an unobtrusive way through jQuery or
Prototype. It can also be integrated with Simple Form.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kpumuk/meta-tags">meta-tags</a> - Search
Engine Optimization (SEO) plugin for Ruby on Rails applications.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/comfy/active_link_to">active_link_to</a>
- active_link_to adds css ‘active’ class to your links.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/apotonick/cells">cells</a> - Cells allow
you to encapsulate parts of your UI into components into view models.
View models, or cells, are simple ruby classes that can render
templates.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/onomojo/i18n_country_select">i18n
Country Code Select</a> - I18n Country Code Select Form Helper for Rails
3 &amp; 4.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cllns/subdivision_select">Subdivision
Select</a> - A Rails plugin to populate a state/province select box from
country_select.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nathanvda/cocoon">cocoon</a> - Dynamic
nested forms using jQuery made easy</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="environment-variables">Environment Variables</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/railsconfig/config">Config</a> -
Multi-environment YAML style configurations that helps easily manage
environment specific settings in an easy and usable manner.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro">Figaro</a> - Figaro
is very simple, Heroku-friendly Rails app configuration using ENV and a
single YAML file.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv">dotenv</a> - Dotenv is
a gem that allows you to set your environment variables in .env file,
and it will load it in to ENV.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/mikamai/opsworks-dotenv">opsworks-dotenv</a> -
Opsworks-dotenv let you configure the environment for you Rails
application using OpsWorks, Chef and Dotenv.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="admin-panel">Admin Panel</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://activeadmin.info">ActiveAdmin</a> - ActiveAdmin is a
administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rstgroup/active_skin">active_skin</a>:
Flat skin for active admin.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin">RailsAdmin</a> -
RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for
managing your data.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/typus/typus">Typus</a> - Typus is a
control panel for Ruby on Rails applications to allow trusted users edit
structured content.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate">administrate</a> - A
Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin
dashboard.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/TrestleAdmin/trestle">Trestle</a> - A
modern, responsive admin framework for Ruby on Rails</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="logging">Logging</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/charlotte-ruby/impressionist">Impressionist</a>
- Impressionist can log page impressions (technically action
impressions), but it is not limited to that. You can log impressions
multiple times per request. And you can also attach it to a model. The
goal of this project is to provide customizable stats that are
immediately accessible in your application as opposed to using Google
Analytics and pulling data using their API.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ankane/ahoy">Ahoy</a> - Ahoy provides a
solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and
native apps.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/roidrage/lograge">Lograge</a> - An
attempt to tame Rails’ default policy to log everything.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="debug">Debug</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/byebug">byebug</a> -
Byebug is a simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2. It uses the
new TracePoint API for execution control and the new Debug Inspector API
for call stack navigation, so it doesn’t depend on internal core
sources.
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug">pry-byebug</a> -
Pry navigation commands via byebug.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rweng/pry-rails">pry-rails</a> - Avoid
repeating yourself, use pry-rails instead of copying the initializer to
every rails project. This is a small gem which causes rails console to
open pry. It therefore depends on pry.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print">awesome_print</a>
- Awesome Print is a Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in
full color exposing their internal structure with proper
indentation.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rails/web-console">web-console</a> - Web
Console is a debugging tool for your Ruby on Rails applications.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rails/spring">spring</a> - Spring is a
Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your
application running in the background so you don’t need to boot it every
time you run a test, rake task or migration.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/josevalim/rails-footnotes">rails-footnotes</a>
- Rails footnotes displays footnotes in your application for easy
debugging, such as sessions, request parameters, cookies, filter chain,
routes, queries, etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jugyo/g">g</a> - The Kernel.g that works
like Kernel.p by using terminal-notifier or growl.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier">terminal-notifier</a>
- terminal-notifier is a command-line tool to send Mac OS X User
Notifications, which are available in Mac OS X 10.8 and higher.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener">letter_opener</a> -
Preview email in the default browser instead of sending it. This means
you do not need to set up email delivery in your development
environment, and you no longer need to worry about accidentally sending
a test email to someone else’s address.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors">Better
Errors</a> - Better errors replaces the standard Rails error page with a
much better and more useful error page.
<ul>
<li>If you would like to use Better Errors’ advanced features (REPL,
local/instance variable inspection, pretty stack frame names), you need
to add the <a
href="https://github.com/banister/binding_of_caller">binding_
_of__caller</a>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dejan/rails_panel">RailsPanel</a> -
RailsPanel is a Chrome extension for Rails development that will end
your tailing of development.log.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="coding-style">Coding Style</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop">RuboCop</a> - Rubocop
is a Ruby static code analyzer. Out of the box it will enforce many of
the guidelines outlined in the community <a
href="https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide">Ruby Style
Guide</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/railsbp/rails_best_practices">Rails Best
Practice</a> - Rails best practice is a code metric tool to check the
quality of rails codes.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/metricfu/metric_fu">Metric Fu</a> - A
fist full of code metrics</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mmozuras/pronto">Pronto</a> - Quick
automated code review of your changes</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="testing">Testing</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails">rspec-rails</a> -
Rspec-rails is a testing framework for Rails 3.x and 4.x.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara">Capybara</a> -
Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user
would interact with your app. And drivers:
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/capybara-webkit">capybara-webkit</a>
- Capybara-webkit is a capybara driver that uses Webkit via
QtWebkit.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/vertis/selenium-webdriver">selenium-webdriver</a>
- Selenium-webdriver provides ruby bindings for WebDriver.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/teampoltergeist/poltergeist">poltergeist</a> -
Poltergeist allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit
browser, provided by PhantomJS.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cheezy/page-object">page-object</a> -
Page-object is a simple gem that assists in creating flexible page
objects for testing browser based applications.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot">factory_bot</a>
- Factory_bot is a fixtures replacement with a straightforward
definition syntax, support for multiple build strategies (saved
instances, unsaved instances, attribute hashes, and stubbed objects),
and support for multiple factories for the same class (user, admin_user,
and so on), including factory inheritance.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot_rails">factory_bot_rails</a>
- Factory_bot_rails provides Rails integration for factory_bot.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/st0012/factory_factory_girl">factory_factory_girl</a>
- FactoryFactoryGirl lets you generate factory files more efficiently
with naming rules.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/DatabaseCleaner/database_cleaner">Database
Cleaner</a> - Database Cleaner is a set of strategies for cleaning your
database in Ruby.Support ActiveRecord, DataMapper, Sequel, MongoMapper,
Mongoid, CouchPotato, Ohm and Redis.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers">shoulda-matchers</a>
- Shoulda-matchers provides serveral matchers for testing common Rails
functionality.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/r7kamura/response_code_matchers">ResponseCodeMatchers</a>
- ResponseCodeMatchers provides rspec matchers to match http response
code.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/colszowka/simplecov">SimpleCov</a> -
SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop">Timecop</a> - A
gem providing “time travel” and “time freezing” capabilities, making it
dead simple to test time-dependent code.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/vcr/vcr">VCR</a> - Record your test
suite’s HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for
fast, deterministic, accurate tests.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="security">Security</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman">brakeman</a> -
Brakeman is a static analysis tool which checks Ruby on Rails
applications for security vulnerabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rubysec/bundler-audit">bundle-audit</a>
- bundler-audit is a patch-level verification tool for Bundler which
checks for vulnerable versions of gems and insecure gem sources.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/twitter/secureheaders">Secure
Headers</a> - Secure Headers will automatically apply several headers
that are related to security.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="production">Production</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano">Capistrano</a> -
Remote multi-server automation tool.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ankane/slowpoke">Slowpoke</a> -
Rack::Timeout is great. Slowpoke makes it better.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack">Rack Attack</a>
- Rack middleware to blocking &amp; throttling.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/plataformatec/responders">Responders</a>
- A set of Rails responders to dry up your application.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/ankane/production_rails">production_rails</a> -
Best practices for running Rails in production.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mina-deploy/mina">Mina</a> - fast
deployer and server automation tool.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="error-logging">Error Logging</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/rollbar/rollbar-gem">Rollbar</a> -
Exception tracking and logging from Ruby to Rollbar.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake">Airbrake</a> -
Notifier gem for integrating apps with Airbrake</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/errbit/errbit">Errbit</a> - Open source
notifier gem compliant with Airbrake.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="database">Database</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/rails_db">rails_db</a> -
Rails Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="asset-pipeline">Asset Pipeline</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mavenlink/alaska">Alaska</a> - ExecJS
runtime with persistent connection to nodejs, speeds up your
coffeescript compilation process during development and deployment.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="contribute">Contribute</h2>
<p>Contributions welcome! Read the <a
href="contributing.md">contribution guidelines</a> first.</p>