A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.

Hashie is a collection of classes and mixins that make hashes more powerful.

Efficient, immutable, thread-safe collection classes for Ruby

Facets is the premier collection of extension methods for the Ruby programming language. Facets extensions are unique by virtue of thier atomicity. They are stored in individual files allowing for highly granular control of requirements. In addition, Facets includes a few additional classes and m...

Docile treats the methods of a given ruby object as a DSL (domain specific language) within a given block. Killer feature: you can also reference methods, instance variables, and local variables from the original (non-DSL) context within the block. Docile releases follow Semantic Versioning a...

RubyTree is a pure Ruby implementation of the generic tree data structure. It provides a node-based model to store named nodes in the tree, and provides simple APIs to access, modify and traverse the structure. The implementation is node-centric, where individual nodes in the tr...

A few useful extensions to core Ruby classes.

tells you which method does the thing you want to do

DEPRECATED! Please use the sugar refinery: http://github.com/janlelis/sugar_refinery

A Scala-inspired Monad library for Ruby, aiming to share the most common idioms for folks working in both languages. Includes Option, Array, etc.

Support library for Merb

DeepTree simplifies fetching deeply nested nodes in Ruby hashes.

A collection of helpful methods and monkey patches for Objects, Strings, Enumerables, Arrays, Hash, Dates, Minitest & Rails

Allows extending ruby's syntax and compilation process

This gem simulates named-parameters in Ruby. It's a complement to the common Ruby idiom of using Hash args to emulate the use of named parameters.

Provides a C-optimized method for underscoring a string

A tiny Ruby gem to provide the 'scan_left' operation on any Ruby Enumerable.

a lightweight core and extra extensions for Ruby.

Three proposed new methods for Hash: map_pair, map_key, and map_value.

Revenge of the Hash options

Extends Vernacular to support rewriting the AST

Recursively traverses data structures (Hash & Array currently)

PluginFactory is a mixin module that turns an including class into a factory for its derivatives, capable of searching for and loading them by name. This is useful when you have an abstract base class which defines an interface and basic functionality for a part of a larger system, and a collecti...