The Bugsnag exception reporter for Ruby gives you instant notification of exceptions thrown from your Rails, Sinatra, Rack or plain Ruby app.

WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual-host server.

FakeWeb is a helper for faking web requests in Ruby. It works at a global level, without modifying code or writing extensive stubs.

Timeout provides a way to auto-terminate a potentially long-running operation if it hasn't finished in a fixed amount of time.

Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar archive files.

fast_xs escapes text so it can be embedded more directly into XML and HTML without having to deal with character set issues.

This package provides a set of Hoe plugins for tighter Git integration. It provides tasks to automate release tagging and pushing and changelog generation.

Daemons provides a way to wrap existing Ruby scripts to be run as a daemon and to be controlled by simple start/stop/restart commands.

Hamster provides 6 persistent data structures: Hash, Vector, Set, SortedSet, List, and Deque (which works as an immutable queue or stack).

Builder provides a number of builder objects that make it easy to create structured data. Currently the following builder objects are supported: XML Markup and XML Events.

This package containse the XML parsing tools shared between a number of providers in the fog gem. fog is a Ruby cloud services library.

This package provides a Ruby binding to the Ed25519 elliptic curve public-key signature system described in RFC 8032.

Spinach is a high-level BDD framework that leverages the expressive Gherkin language to help you define executable specifications of your code.

rqrcode is a library for encoding QR Codes. The simple interface allows you to create QR Code data structures and then render them in the way you choose.

This library provides functionality for retrieving email via POP3, the Post Office Protocol version 3, as specified by RFC1939.

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. Unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.

The ammeter gem makes it easy to write specs for Rails generators. An existing user is rspec-rails, which uses ammeter to spec its own generators.

Promise is a Ruby implementation of the Promises/A+ specification. It provides 100% mutation coverage, tested on MRI 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, Rubinius, and JRuby.

This library provides methods to encode and decode Ascii85 binary-to-text encoding. The main modern use of Ascii85 is in PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) file formats.

Markaby allows writing HTML packages in pure Ruby. This is similar to the functionality provided by ERB, but without the mixture of HTML and additional ERB syntax.

Launchy is helper class for launching applications in a fire and forget manner. The aim of Launchy is to provide a common approach to launching external applications from within Ruby programs.

Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol. It allows you to write programs that invoke and interact with processes on remote servers, via SSH2.

Fivemat is a MiniTest/RSpec/Cucumber formatter that gives each test file its own line of dots during testing. It aims to provide test output that is neither too verbose nor too minimal.