Have you ever wanted to call <code>exit()</code> with an error condition, but weren't sure what exit status to use? No? Maybe it's just me, then. Anyway, I was reading manpages late one evening before retiring to bed in my palatial estate in rural Oregon, and I stumbled across <co...

BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of John Gruber's Markdown[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/], a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. To quote from the project page: Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to struc...

Linguistics is a framework for building linguistic utilities for Ruby objects in any language. It includes a generic language-independant front end, a module for mapping language codes into language names, and a module which contains various English-language utilities.

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...

This is an old, deprecated version of the Ruby PostgreSQL driver that hasn't been maintained or supported since early 2008. You should install/require 'pg' instead. If you need the 'postgres' gem for legacy code that can't be converted, you can still install it using an explicit version, like s...

This is an old, deprecated version of the 'pg' gem that hasn't been maintained or supported since early 2008. You should install/require 'pg' instead. If you need ruby-pg for legacy code that can't be converted, you can still install it using an explicit version, like so: gem install ruby-pg...

Treequel is an LDAP toolkit for Ruby. It is intended to allow quick, easy access to LDAP directories in a manner consistent with LDAP's hierarchical, free-form nature. It's inspired by and modeled after [Sequel][sequel], a kick-ass database library. For more information on how to use it, check ...

This is a collection of webservice monitoring tools for the Arborist monitoring toolkit (http://arbori.st/). It can be used to describe and monitor HTTP services in more detail than a simple port check.

Assemblage is a continuous integration toolkit. It's intended to provide you with a minimal infrastructure for distributing and performing automated tasks for one or more version control repositories. It makes as few assumptions as possible as to what those things might be. It's still just a per...

This gem adds web services to an Assemblage continuous integration server. It's still largely vaporware.

DRbService is a framework we use at LAIKA for creating authenticated SSL-encrypted DRb services that provide access to privileged operations without the need to give shell access to everyone. There are a few examples in the `examples/` directory of the gem, which are stripped-down versions of th...

An exporter for David Dollar's Foreman[https://github.com/ddollar/foreman] that outputs service directories that can be managed by 'supervise' from DJB's daemontools[http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html].

A collection of Rake tasks and utility functions I use to maintain my Open Source projects. It's really only useful if you want to help maintain one of them.

A [Hoe](http://www.zenspider.com/projects/hoe.html) plugin for interacting with Gemnasium. It's still a work in progress.

A Hoe plugin for building interactive Rake tasks. Hoe-highline, as you might have guessed from the name, adds prompting and displaying functions from the HighLine[http://highline.rubyforge.org/] gem to your Rake environment, allowing you to ask questions, prompt for passwords, build menus, and o...

A manual-generation plugin for Hoe. This is a plugin for Hoe[http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/] that adds tasks and resources for generating a manual or cookbook. It's self-documenting, so for more, see {the latest manual for hoe-manualgen itself}[http://deveiate.org/code/hoe-manualgen/].

A simple, but feature-complete Ruby binding for OpenLDAP's libldap. This binding is intended as an alternative for [ruby-ldap][] for libraries or applications which require a more complete implementation of the LDAP protocol (according to [RFC4511][]) than it provides. Additions or changes: *...

A(nother) HTML(5) generator for RDoc. It uses {Twitter Bootstrap}[http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/] for the pretty, doesn't take up valuable horizontal real estate space with indexes and stuff, and has a QuickSilver-like incremental searching.

This is a formatter for RSpec 2 that takes advantage of features in WebKit[http://webkit.org/] to make the output from RSpec in Textmate more fun. Test output looks like this: http://deveiate.org/images/tmrspec-example.png

This is a Ruby interface to FrameNet, a lexical database of English word usage. It includes version 1.7 of the FrameNet data, and Ruby classes for querying them.