# Awesome Ruby

A curated list of awesome Ruby frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by [awesome-php](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) & [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python).

- [Awesome Ruby](#awesome-ruby)
    - [Environment Management](#environment-management)
    - [Package Management](#package-management)
    - [Distribution](#distribution)
    - [Files](#files)
    - [Date and Time](#date-and-time)
    - [Text Processing](#text-processing)
    - [Natural Language Processing](#natural-language-processing)
    - [Documentation](#documentation)
    - [Configuration](#configuration)
    - [Command-line Tools](#command-line-tools)
    - [Imagery](#imagery)
    - [Audio](#audio)
    - [Video](#video)
    - [Geolocation](#geolocation)
    - [HTTP](#http)
    - [Database](#database)
    - [Database Drivers](#database-drivers)
    - [ORM](#orm)
    - [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks)
    - [CMS](#cms)
    - [RESTful API](#restful-api)
    - [Authentication and OAuth](#authentication-and-oauth)
    - [Template Engine](#template-engine)
    - [Queue](#queue)
    - [Search](#search)
    - [Asset Management](#asset-management)
    - [Caching](#caching)
    - [Email](#email)
    - [Internationalization](#internationalization)
    - [URL Manipulation](#url-manipulation)
    - [HTML Manipulation](#html-manipulation)
    - [Web Crawling](#web-crawling)
    - [Web Content Extracting](#web-content-extracting)
    - [Downloader](#downloader)
    - [Forms](#forms)
    - [Data Validation](#data-validation)
    - [Anti-spam](#anti-spam)
    - [Tagging](#tagging)
    - [Build Tools](#build-tools)
    - [Admin Panels](#admin-panels)
    - [Processes and Threads](#processes-and-threads)
    - [Networking](#networking)
    - [WebSocket](#websocket)
    - [Cryptography](#cryptography)
    - [GUI](#gui)
    - [Game Development](#game-development)
    - [Logging](#logging)
    - [Testing](#testing)
    - [Code Analysis and Linter](#code-analysis-and-linter)
    - [Debugging Tools](#debugging-tools)
    - [Science and Data Analysis](#science-and-data-analysis)
    - [Data Visualization](#data-visualization)
    - [Machine Learning](#machine-learning)
    - [Functional Programming](#functional-programming)
    - [MapReduce](#mapreduce)
    - [Third-party APIs](#third-party-apis)
    - [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools)
    - [Foreign Function Interface](#foreign-function-interface)
    - [High Performance](#high-performance)
    - [Algorithms and Design Patterns](#algorithms-and-design-patterns)
    - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
    - [Editor Plugins](#editor-plugins)
- [Resources](#resources)
    - [Websites](#websites)
    - [Weekly](#weekly)
    - [Twitter](#twitter)

## Environment Management

*Libraries for Python version and environment management.*

## Package Management

*Libraries for package and dependency management.*

## Distribution

*Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.*

## Files

*Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.*

## Date and Time

*Libraries for working with dates and times.*

## Text Processing

*Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.*

* General

* Specific Formats

* Parser

## Natural Language Processing

*Libraries for working with human languages.*

## Documentation

*Libraries for generating project documentation.*

## Configuration

*Libraries for storing configuration options.*

## Command-line Tools

*Libraries for building command-line application.*

* Command-line Application Development

* Workflow Tools

## Imagery

*Libraries for manipulating images.*

## Audio

*Libraries for manipulating audio.*

## Video

*Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.*

## Geolocation

*Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.*

## HTTP

*Libraries for working with HTTP.*

## Database Drivers

*Libraties for connecting and operating databases.*

* Relational Databases

* NoSQL Databases

## ORM

*Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.*

* Relational Databases

* NoSQL Databases

## Web Frameworks

*Web development frameworks.*

## CMS

*Content management systems*

## RESTful API

*Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.*

## Authentication and OAuth

*Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.*

## Template Engine

*Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.*

## Queue

*Libraries for working with event and task queues.*

## Search

*Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.*

## Asset Management

*Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.*

## Caching

*Libraries for caching data.*

## Email

*Libraries for sending and parsing email.*

## Internationalization

*Libraries for woking with i18n.*

## URL Manipulation

*Libraries for parsing URLs.*

## HTML Manipulation

*Libraries for working with HTML and XML.*

## Web Crawling

*Libraries for scraping websites.*

## Web Content Extracting

*Libraries for extracting web contents.*

## Downloader

*Libraries for downloading.*

## Forms

*Libraries for working with forms.*

## Data Validation

*Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.*

## Anti-spam

*Libraries for fighting spam.*

## Tagging

*Libraries for tagging items.*

## Build Tools

*Compile software from source code.*

## Admin Panels

*Libraries for administrative interfaces.*

## Processes and Threads

*Libraries for woking with processes or threads*

## Networking

*Libraries for network programming.*

## WebSocket

*Libraries for woking with WebSocket.*

## Cryptography

* [PyCA's Cryptography](https://cryptography.io/en/latest/) - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

## GUI

*Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.*

* [PySide](http://qt-project.org/wiki/pyside) - Python bindings for the [Qt](http://qt-project.org/) cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 framework.
* [wxPython](http://wxpython.org/) - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
* [kivy](http://kivy.org/) - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
* [curses](https://docs.python.org/2/library/curses.html#module-curses) - Built-in wrapper for [ncurses](http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/) used to create terminal GUI applications.
* [urwid](http://urwid.org/) - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
* [pyglet](http://www.pyglet.org/) - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
* [Tkinter](https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter) - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
* [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro) - Python bindings for the [Qt](http://qt-project.org/) cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.

## Game Development

*Awesome game development libraries.*

## Logging

*Libraries for generating and working with log files.*


## Testing

*Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*

* Testing Frameworks

* Mock

* Fake Data

* Code Coverage

* Load Testing

* Error Handler


## Code Analysis and Linter

*Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.*


## Debugging Tools

*Libraries for debugging and developing.*


## Science and Data Analysis

*Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.*

## Data Visualization

*Libraries for visualizing data.*


## Machine Learning

*Libraries for Machine Learning.*


## Functional Programming


## MapReduce

*Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.*

## Third-party APIs

*Libraries for accessing third party APIs.*


## DevOps Tools

*Software and libraries for DevOps.*


## Foreign Function Interface

*Libraries for providing foreign function interface.*


## High Performance

*Libraries for making Ruby faster.*


## Algorithms and Design Patterns

*Collections of algorithms and design patterns.*


## Miscellaneous

*Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.*


## Editor Plugins

*Plugins for various editors.*


# Resources

Where to discover new Ruby libraries.

## Websites



## Weekly


## Twitter


# Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!