Frameworks

A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

A toolkit for building modeling frameworks like Active Record. Rich support for attributes, callbacks, validations, serialization, internationalization, and testing.

Rack provides a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call.

factory_bot provides a framework and DSL for defining and using factories - less error-prone, more explicit, and all-around easier to work with than fixtures.

A generalized Rack framework for multiple-provider authentication.

factory_girl provides a framework and DSL for defining and using factories - less error-prone, more explicit, and all-around easier to work with than fixtures.

A Ruby framework for rapid API development with great conventions.

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH.

minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking. "I had a class with Jim Weirich on testing last week and we were allowed to choose our testing frameworks. Kirk Haines and I were paired up and we cracked open the code for a few test frameworks... I MUST say that minitest is *very* readable / understandable compared to the 'other two' options we looked at. Nicely done and thank you for helping us keep our mental sanity." -- Wayne E. Seguin minitest/test is a small and incredibly fast unit testing framework. It provides a rich set of assertions to make your tests clean and readable. minitest/spec is a functionally complete spec engine. It hooks onto minitest/test and seamlessly bridges test assertions over to spec expectations. minitest/benchmark is an awesome way to assert the performance of your algorithms in a repeatable manner. Now you can assert that your newb co-worker doesn't replace your linear algorithm with an exponential one! minitest/mock by Steven Baker, is a beautifully tiny mock (and stub) object framework. minitest/pride shows pride in testing and adds coloring to your test output. I guess it is an example of how to write IO pipes too. :P minitest/test is meant to have a clean implementation for language implementors that need a minimal set of methods to bootstrap a working test suite. For example, there is no magic involved for test-case discovery. "Again, I can't praise enough the idea of a testing/specing framework that I can actually read in full in one sitting!" -- Piotr Szotkowski Comparing to rspec: rspec is a testing DSL. minitest is ruby. -- Adam Hawkins, "Bow Before MiniTest" minitest doesn't reinvent anything that ruby already provides, like: classes, modules, inheritance, methods. This means you only have to learn ruby to use minitest and all of your regular OO practices like extract-method refactorings still apply.

Compass is a Sass-based Stylesheet Framework that streamlines the creation and maintenance of CSS.

Mongoid is an ODM (Object Document Mapper) Framework for MongoDB, written in Ruby.

Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications and uses it to improve ripl(irb)'s default inspect output. Given an object or array of objects, hirb renders a view based on the object's class and/or ancestry. Hirb offers reusable views in the form of helper classes. The two main helpers, Hirb::Helpers::Table and Hirb::Helpers::Tree, provide several options for generating ascii tables and trees. Using Hirb::Helpers::AutoTable, hirb has useful default views for at least ten popular database gems i.e. Rails' ActiveRecord::Base. Other than views, hirb offers a smart pager and a console menu. The smart pager only pages when the output exceeds the current screen size. The menu is used in conjunction with tables to offer two dimensional menus.

The administration framework for Ruby on Rails.

Object geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (coordinates to street address), distance queries for ActiveRecord and Mongoid, result caching, and more. Designed for Rails but works with Sinatra and other Rack frameworks too.

RSpec's 'test double' framework, with support for stubbing and mocking

Arel Really Exasperates Logicians Arel is a SQL AST manager for Ruby. It 1. Simplifies the generation of complex SQL queries 2. Adapts to various RDBMSes It is intended to be a framework framework; that is, you can build your own ORM with it, focusing on innovative object and collection modeling as opposed to database compatibility and query generation.

An authentication library compatible with all Rack-based frameworks

Inspired by ctemplate, Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views. As ctemplates says, "It emphasizes separating logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this template language. Think of Mustache as a replacement for your views. Instead of views consisting of ERB or HAML with random helpers and arbitrary logic, your views are broken into two parts: a Ruby class and an HTML template.

Rack::Test is a small, simple testing API for Rack apps. It can be used on its own or as a reusable starting point for Web frameworks and testing libraries to build on.

A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.

InSpec provides a framework for creating end-to-end infrastructure tests. You can use it for integration or even compliance testing. Create fully portable test profiles and use them in your workflow to ensure stability and security. Integrate InSpec in your change lifecycle for local testing, CI/CD, and deployment verification. Packaged distributions of Progress® Chef® products obtained from RubyGems are made available pursuant to the Progress Chef EULA at https://www.chef.io/end-user-license-agreement, unless there is an executed agreement in effect between you and Progress that covers the Progress Chef products ("Master Agreement"), in which case the Master Agreement shall govern. Source code obtained from the Chef GitHub repository is made available under Apache-2.0, a copy of which is included.

Namespaced Rack::Session, Rack::Cache, I18n and cache Redis stores for Ruby web frameworks.

Test your JavaScript without any framework dependencies, in any environment, and with a nice descriptive syntax. Jasmine for Ruby is deprecated. The direct replacment for the jasmine-core gem is the jasmine-core NPM package. If you are also using the jasmine gem, we recommend using the jasmine-browser-runner NPM package instead. It supports all the same scenarios as the jasmine gem gem plus Webpacker. See https://jasmine.github.io/setup/browser.html for setup instructions, and https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine-gem/blob/main/release_notes/3.9.0.md for other options.

The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. http://getbootstrap.com

Airbrake is an online tool that provides robust exception tracking in any of your Ruby applications. In doing so, it allows you to easily review errors, tie an error to an individual piece of code, and trace the cause back to recent changes. The Airbrake dashboard provides easy categorization, searching, and prioritization of exceptions so that when errors occur, your team can quickly determine the root cause. Additionally, this gem includes integrations with such popular libraries and frameworks as Rails, Sinatra, Resque, Sidekiq, Delayed Job, Shoryuken, ActiveJob and many more.

RGen is a framework for Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) in Ruby. This means that it helps you build Metamodels, instantiate Models, modify and transform Models and finally generate arbitrary textual content from it.

A lightweight Sass grid framework

Solidus is an open source e-commerce framework for Ruby on Rails.

Admin interface for the Solidus e-commerce framework.

InSpec provides a framework for creating end-to-end infrastructure tests. You can use it for integration or even compliance testing. Create fully portable test profiles and use them in your workflow to ensure stability and security. Integrate InSpec in your change lifecycle for local testing, CI/CD, and deployment verification. This has local support only. See the `inspec` gem for full support. Packaged distributions of Progress® Chef® products obtained from RubyGems are made available pursuant to the Progress Chef EULA at https://www.chef.io/end-user-license-agreement, unless there is an executed agreement in effect between you and Progress that covers the Progress Chef products ("Master Agreement"), in which case the Master Agreement shall govern. Source code obtained from the Chef GitHub repository is made available under Apache-2.0, a copy of which is included.

REST API for the Solidus e-commerce framework.

Extracted from Grape, A Ruby framework for rapid API development with great conventions.

The Padrino core gem required for use of this framework

A concurrency framework for Ruby.

Easiest way to manage multi-environment settings in any ruby project or framework: Rails, Sinatra, Padrino and others

SitemapGenerator is a framework-agnostic XML Sitemap generator written in Ruby with automatic Rails integration. It supports Video, News, Image, Mobile, PageMap and Alternate Links sitemap extensions and includes Rake tasks for managing your sitemaps, as well as many other great features.

Webrat lets you quickly write expressive and robust acceptance tests for a Ruby web application. It supports simulating a browser inside a Ruby process to avoid the performance hit and browser dependency of Selenium or Watir, but the same API can also be used to drive real Selenium tests when necessary (eg. for testing AJAX interactions). Most Ruby web frameworks and testing frameworks are supported.

The Godfather of Sinatra provides a full-stack agnostic framework on top of Sinatra

test-unit (Test::Unit) is unit testing framework for Ruby, based on xUnit principles. These were originally designed by Kent Beck, creator of extreme programming software development methodology, for Smalltalk's SUnit. It allows writing tests, checking results and automated testing in Ruby.

Test your JavaScript without any framework dependencies, in any environment, and with a nice descriptive syntax. Jasmine for Ruby is deprecated. We recommend using the jasmine-browser-runner NPM package instead. It supports all the same scenarios as this gem plus Webpacker. See https://jasmine.github.io/setup/browser.html for setup instructions, and https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine-gem/blob/main/release_notes/3.9.0.md for other options.

Extension for popular TDD and BDD frameworks like "Cucumber", "RSpec" and "Minitest", to make testing command line applications meaningful, easy and fun.

ChefSpec is a unit testing and resource coverage (code coverage) framework for testing Chef cookbooks ChefSpec makes it easy to write examples and get fast feedback on cookbook changes without the need for virtual machines or cloud servers.

A framework to implement robust multiprocess servers like Unicorn

Dragonfly is a framework that enables on-the-fly processing for any content type. It is especially suited to image handling. Its uses range from image thumbnails to standard attachments to on-demand text generation.

CI::Reporter is an add-on to Ruby testing frameworks that allows you to generate XML reports of your test runs. The resulting files can be read by a continuous integration system that understands Ant's JUnit report format.

Template compilation framework in Ruby

An easy to configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby.

RGeo is a geospatial data library for Ruby. It provides an implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Simple Features Specification, used by most standard spatial/geographic data storage systems such as PostGIS. A number of add-on modules are also available to help with writing location-based applications using Ruby-based frameworks such as Ruby On Rails.