Template-builder is a handy tool that builds a template for your new Ruby on Rails projects. The template contains all you need to build the RoR project that you want.

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A very simple XML builder class. + I wanted something really simple that I could easily extend myself later on if I needed to. + Ironically, in four years since I created and used TinyXml, I never needed to extend it :-) I figured, it may as well work for others in that case, so here it is.

Twibot (pronounced like "Abbot"), is a Ruby microframework for creating Twitter bots, heavily inspired by Sinatra.

Logging is a flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs based on the design of Java's log4j library. It features a hierarchical logging system, custom level names, multiple output destinations per log event, custom formatting, and more.

Descriptive configuration files for Ruby written in Ruby. Loquacious provides a very open configuration system written in ruby and descriptions for each configuration attribute. The attributes and descriptions can be iterated over allowing for helpful information about those attributes to be displayed to the user. In the simple case we have a file something like Loquacious.configuration_for('app') { name 'value', :desc => "Defines the name" foo 'bar', :desc => "FooBar" id 42, :desc => "Ara T. Howard" } Which can be loaded via the standard Ruby loading mechanisms Kernel.load 'config/app.rb' The attributes and their descriptions can be printed by using a Help object help = Loquacious.help_for('app') help.show :values => true # show the values for the attributes, too Descriptions are optional, and configurations can be nested arbitrarily deep. Loquacious.configuration_for('nested') { desc "The outermost level" a { desc "One more level in" b { desc "Finally, a real value" c 'value' } } } config = Loquacious.configuration_for('nested') p config.a.b.c #=> "value" And as you can see, descriptions can either be given inline after the value or they can appear above the attribute and value on their own line.

TURN is a new way to view Test::Unit results. With longer running tests, it can be very frustrating to see a failure (....F...) and then have to wait till all the tests finish before you can see what the exact failure was. TURN displays each test on a separate line with failures being displayed immediately instead of at the end of the tests. If you have the 'facets' gem installed, then TURN output will be displayed in wonderful technicolor (but only if your terminal supports ANSI color codes). Well, the only colors are green and red, but that is still color.

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ullr is a little gem that consumes NOAA weather xml for a given lat/long, and returns a ruby object with 12 hour forecasts along with some sugar to let you know if any sugar will be falling from the sky.

Small library for unpacking various archives, extracted from Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) (and rewritten, in fact).

Represent ActiveRecord Markdown, Textile, Wiki text, RDoc columns as Markdown, Textile Wikitext, RDoc objects using various external libraries to convert to HTML.

A collection of methods for calculating finnish bank references.

* Ruby Implementation of the Interactive Broker' TWS API

*Webby* is a fantastic little website management system. It would be called a *content management system* if it were a bigger kid. But, it's just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And that's really all it does - manages the legwork of turning text into something else, an *ASCII Alchemist* if you will. Webby works by combining the contents of a *page* with a *layout* to produce HTML. The layout contains everything common to all the pages - HTML headers, navigation menu, footer, etc. - and the page contains just the information for that page. You can use your favorite markup language to write your pages; Webby supports quite a few. Install Webby and try it out!

This gem calculates date like 'first tuesday in december 2010' or 'third friday in may 2011' or 'last Saturday in december 2010'

Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a fire and forget manner. There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be launched differently on each platform. Launchy is here to make a common approach to launching external application from within ruby programs.

Simple package that allows you to manage your newsberry contacts.

A simple wrapper around Win32::Service to present a more 'God' (http://god.rubyforge.org) like interface. Also presents all service information as hashes rather than structs to save on wire transport and multi-platform complexity.

ZiYa allows you to easily create interactive charts, gauges and maps for your web applications. ZiYa leverages flash which offload heavy server side processing to the client. At the root ZiYa allows you to easily generate an XML files that will be downloaded to the client for rendering. Using this gem, you will be able to easily create great looking charts for your application. You will also be able to use the charts, gauges and maps has a navigation scheme by embedding various link in the graphical components thus bringing to the table an ideal scheme for reporting and dashboard like applications. Your manager will love you for it !! Sample site : http://ziya.liquidrail.com Documentation : http://ziya.liquidrail.com/docs Forum : http://groups.google.com/group/ziya-plugin Repositories : git://github.com/derailed/ziya.git