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A collection of awesome Ruby web frameworks, libraries, tools, etc.
Note: 💎 stands for the RubyGems page, 
stands for the GitHub page and 📖 stands for the RubyDoc page.
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Rack • Rack Alternatives • Ruby on Rails • Sinatra • Volt • Async Web (Socket) Frameworks • Web Service Frameworks • Micro Framework Alternatives • Macro Framework Alternatives • Meta
- the_metal - a spike for thoughts about Rack 2.0
Batteries Included Macro Framework
- Ruby on Rails HQ - , 💎, 📖
Extensions:
Future:
- Trailblazer, , 💎, 📖 - a thin layer on top of rails - (gently) enforces encapsulation, a "more" intuitive code structure and giving you a "better" object-oriented architecture by Nick Sutterer et al
Micro Framework
- Sinatra HQ - , 💎, 📖
Extensions:
- Padrino HQ - , 💎, 📖
Fun / Hack:
- Almost Sinatra - Sinatra refactored, only six lines of code by Konstantin Haase
Future:
- Mustermann, - your personal string matching expert; can be used as a plugin for Sinatra 1.x and will power Sinatra 2.0; by Konstantin Haase et al
Client/Server Isomorphic Framework
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Cramp
, 💎 - a fully asynchronous realtime web application framework built on top of event machine; providing full-duplex bi-directional communication by Pratik Naik -
Lattice
, 💎, 📖 - an actor-based web framework built on top of celluloid, reel, and webmachine; designed for realtime apps, end-to-end streaming, and websockets by Tony Arcieri et al
JSON HTTP API Builder
- Grape - , 💎, 📖 - a micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs
- Crêpe - 💎 - a thin API stack
- Yaks - 💎, 📖 - serialize to hypermedia. HAL, JSON-API, etc.
- Rum - gRand Unified Mapper for rack apps
- Cuba - , 💎, 📖 - tiny but powerful mapper for rack apps
- New York, New York (NYNY) - , 💎, 📖 - a tiny (~300 lines of code) web framework on top of rack
- Roda - , 💎, 📖 - a routing tree web framework toolkit
- Hobbit , 💎, 📖 - a minimalistic microframework built on top of rack by Patricio Mac Adden
- Brooklyn - a small web tool on top of rack by Luis Lavena
- Nancy, , 💎, 📖 - Sinatra's little daughter by Guillermo Iguaran
- Camping, , 💎, 📖 - minature rails for stay-at-home moms; the 4k pocket full-of-gags web microframework
- Scorched, , 💎, 📖 - light-weight, DRY as a desert, web framework by Tom Wardrop et al
- Lotus HQ - , 💎, 📖 - a complete web framework; bringing back object-oriented programming to web development, leveraging a stable API, minimal DSL and plain objects by Luca Guidi et al
- Pakyow HQ - , 💎 - an open-source framework for the modern web with a view-first development process that's friendly to everyone whether you're a designer or a developer
- Ramaze HQ - , 💎, 📖 - a simple, light and modular open-source web application framework by Michael Fellinger et al
License
The awesome list is dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.
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