ruby popular gems by cat 20131031

ActiveRecord
	DB adapers (one for each major DB tool)
	Default Values(default-value-for, 146K)
	Enumerated Attributes (enumerize, 175K)
	Index Assistants (foreigner, 557K)
	Named Scopes (ransack, 400K, searchlogic, 301K, pacecar)
	Nesting (awesome-nested-set, 661K, ancestry, 390K, acts-as-tree)
	Sharding (octopus, 83K)
	Soft Deletions (rails3-acts-as-paranoid, 153K)
	Sorting (acts-as-list, 1264K)
	User Stamps (userstamp, 12K)
	Value Cleanup (attribute-normalizer, 98K)
	Versioning (paper_trail, 854K)
	Pagination (will_paginate, 4869K, kaminari, 2957K)
	Commenting (acts_as_commentable, 205K, disqus, 21K)
	DB Bootstrapping (seed_fu, 250K)
	Ratings (ajaxful_rating, 54K)
	Search (sunspot, 583K, sunspot_rails, 552K, thinking-sphinx, 670K)
	Tags (acts-as-taggable-on, 1273K)

Background Processing
	Background Jobs (Resque
Code Quality
Communication
Content Mgmt
CSS
Data Persistence
Dev Tools
Documentation
PDFs
Spreadsheets
eCommerce

Fun
	Gaming
	Music/MIDI

Graphics
	Graphs
	Images
	QR Codes
	Visualization

HTML/Markup
	Breadcrumbs
	Forms
	Markup
	Microformats
	Menu Builders
	Wizards
	Syntax Highlights
	Tables
	Templates

Javascript
	Runtimes
	Testing
	Tools
	In-Place Editing

Monitors
	App Instrumentation
	Exceptions
	Logs
	Maintenance Mode
	Servers

Packages/Dependencies
	Bundles
	Gems
	Packaging
	Packaging to Executables

Deployment & Hosting
	Amazon
	Asset Distribution
	Asset Mgmt
	Backups
	Continuous Integration
	Deployment
	Systems Integration
	Web Servers

Rails Plugsin
	Activity Feeds
	Admin Interfaces
	App Templates
	Class Diagrams
	File Uploads
	Permaslugs
	Presenters
	Subdomains
	Recommendation Engines
	Reputation Engines
	State Machines
	User Messaging

Security
	Encryption (attr_encrypted, 207K)
	LDAP (devise_ldap_authenticable, 71K)
	Authentication (Devise 5757K, OmniAuth, Authlogic)
	Authorization (Cancan, 2804K)
	Captchas (Recaptcha, 402K)
	Tools (Brakeman, 366K)
	Spam Detection (Rakismet, 81K)

Testing
	A/B (Vanity, Split)
	Acceptance Test Frameworks (Cucumber)
	Browser Testing (Capybara)
	Continuous (Guard, Guard-rspec)
	Distributed Testing (Spork)
	Mocks (rspec-mocks, Mocha)
	Fixtures (Factory Girl, Machinist)
	Random Numbers (Faker)
	Engine Tests (Combustion)
	Test::Unit Extensions (Shoulda)
	Time Warping (Timecop)
	Unit Tests (RSpec, Minitest)

Time & Space:
	Calendars (Event Calendar)
	Geocoding & Maps (Geocoder, Geokit)
	I18N (I18n)
	Natural Language Date Parsing (Chronic)
	Recurring Events (Icecube)

Web Apps/Services/Interaction:
	API Builders (Grape)
	API Clients (Twitter, LinkedIn)
	RSS (Feedzirra)
	HTML Parsing (Nokogiri)
	HTTP Clients (Rest-client)
	JSON (json)
	Multitenancy (milia)
	Controller Abstractions (inherited resources)
	SOAP (Savon)
	Social Network Builders (insoshi)
	URL Rewriters (rack-rewrite)
	User Agent Detection (useragent)
	Web Analytics (gattica)
	Web App Frameworks (RubyOnRails, Rack, Sinatra)
	Web Content Scrapers (Pismo, data_miner)
	XML (nori, Gyoku)