21 Helpful and trending Ruby gems.

Heya fellow Ruby devs!

I'm sure you that if you are a seasoned ruby expert, that you already know most of these gems. I will also bet that you are using at least some of them. However! I'm promising that you will find something new and useful, too. For example, I found Ferrum only a few months ago, and it's been delightfully easy to navigate a headless chrome with it (compared to Selenium. Selenium was always giving me some hard time for some reason.)

The list was extracted from LibHunt Ruby.

It's interesting that we have two different Admin UIs that are trending. I think this is indicative that our community needs a more useful Admin UI gem. Of course I know about ActiveAdmin and rails_admin. I've tried both of them, and they are surely useful but not perfect. I'd say Python tops us here with their Django admin. Anyways, it's great to see some active development in this direction in the ruby community.

Basecamp/Rails is working hard with trending work on four gems - solid_queue, solid_cache, console1984 & kamal. Many thanks for that. I'm not using solid_queue and solid_cache yet; however, they are definitely on my radar for my next project.

Without further ado, here's the list. Please note that it's not ordered by number of stars but rather by stars growth (percentage).

p.s. is there a gem you'd like to be added to the list :)?

⭐	Library	Description	Resources
0.6k	multiwoven - Data Analysis, data-engineering, data-ingestion, reverse-etl, data-pipeline	🔥 Open Source Reverse ETL and Customer Data Platform (CDP). An open-source alternative to Hightouch, Census, and RudderStack.	Repo, Web, Alternatives
1.5k	solid_queue - Queue, background-jobs, active-job, Rails, ruby-on-rails	Database-backed Active Job backend	Repo, Alternatives
1.1k	langchainrb - Artificial intelligence, langchain, Machine Learning, ML, Rubyml	Build LLM-powered applications in Ruby	Repo, Web, Alternatives
0.9k	Grover - PDF	A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium	Repo, Docs, Alternatives
5.2k	docuseal - Documents, PDF, self-hosted, daisyui, document-signing	Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️	Repo, Web, Alternatives
0.7k	solid_cache - Cache, Rails, Performance	A database-backed ActiveSupport::Cache::Store	Repo, Alternatives
0.7k	rage - Web, Web Framework, Rails	Fast web framework compatible with Rails.	Repo, Alternatives
26.5k	maybe - Finance, Nextjs, personal-finance, React, NodeJS	The OS for your personal finances	Repo, Web, Alternatives
0.7k	Amazing Print - pretty-print, terminal tools	Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation	Repo, Alternatives
1.1k	phlex - Template engine, Ruby, view-components, UI Components, phlex	A framework for building object-oriented views in Ruby.	Repo, Web, Docs, Alternatives
0.6k	console1984 - Privacy, Security, Rails	The Rails console you love, 1984 style	Repo, Alternatives
2.2k	endoflife.date - eol, end-of-life, release-schedule, release-policy, Windows	Informative site with EoL dates of everything	Repo, Web, Alternatives
0.7k	sidekiq-throttled - Sidekiq, Throttling, Concurrency, threshold	Concurrency and rate-limit throttling for Sidekiq	Repo, Alternatives
0.5k	ruby-science - Book	The reference for writing fantastic Rails applications	Repo, Alternatives
0.6k	ronin - Security, Ruby, Hacking, Infosec, ctf-tools	Ronin is a Free and Open Source Ruby Toolkit for Security Research and Development. Ronin also allows for the rapid development and distribution of code, exploits, payloads, etc, via 3rd party git repositories.	Repo, Web, Docs, Alternatives
0.7k	motor-admin-rails - Admin Interface, Rails, Admin, Crud, Business Intelligence	Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.	Repo, Web, Alternatives
0.7k	heya - Email, Rails, email-marketing, actionmailer	Heya 👋 is a campaign mailer for Rails. Think of it like ActionMailer, but for timed email sequences. It can also perform other actions like sending a text message.	Repo, Web, Alternatives
9.0k	kamal - Deploy, Rails, Docker, Ops	Deploy web apps anywhere.	Repo, Web, Alternatives
1.4k	Avo - Admin Interface, Rails, Ruby, Admin, Crud	Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster	Repo, Web, Docs, Alternatives
14.1k	Postal - Communication systems, Email, Mail Transfer Agents, Ruby, Mail	📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail	Repo, Web, Alternatives
1.6k	ferrum - Chrome, Chromium, Headless, headless-chrome, Web	Headless Chrome Ruby API	Repo, Web, Alternatives