Faster, Better, Simpler.

Several methods in ActiveRecord skip validations, callbacks, or both. In my extremely humble but also extremely correct opinion, it's too easy to accidentally use these. Do Not Want kills those methods dead so you won't cut yourself on them: >> User.new.update_attribute(:foo, 5) DoNotWa...

Provide validation/generation for UPC/EAN/GTIN numbers

Want to write iPhone unit tests? Want to write them in Ruby?

A browser environment for javascript interpreters. This is a fork of the env.js project (http://github.com/thatcher/env-js/). See that link for env.js details. This fork is based on the Johnson Ruby gem (http://github.com/jbarnette/johnson).

A browser environment for javascript interpreters. This is a fork of the env.js project (http://github.com/thatcher/env-js/). See that link for env.js details. This fork is based on the Johnson Ruby gem (http://github.com/jbarnette/johnson).

Fibur is a gem that gives you full concurrency during your I/O calls in Ruby 1.9.

Experimental library for working with GoogleCheckout. Currently in use for payment at http://peepcode.com.

A set of Hoe plugins for tighter Git integration. Provides tasks to automate release tagging and pushing and changelog generation. I expect it'll learn a few more tricks in the future.

Plug-in that provides I18n Inflector module integration with Rails.

Convert integers to base62 strings (A-Za-z0-9) and back. A handy way to shorten long numbers.

ruote-amqp provides an AMQP participant/listener pair that allows you to distribute workitems out to AMQP consumers for processing. To learn more about remote participants in ruote please see http://openwfe.rubyforge.org/part.html

The Lorax is a full diff and patch library for XML/HTML documents, based on Nokogiri. It can tell you whether two XML/HTML documents are identical, or if they're not, tell you what's different. In trivial cases, it can even apply the patch. It's based loosely on Gregory Cobena's master's thesis...

A set of bindings between Ruby and Mapnik. Supports many of the common uses for Mapnik, and one day, might support all of them. Rendering is available using the standard AGG library, or additionally via Cairo, if the rcairo gem is installed and Mapnik has been compiled with Cairo support.

Markdown Engine Wrapper - Use Your Markdown Library of Choice

Chit is A command line tool for cheat sheet utility based on git.

Print out emoji for your test passes, fails, and skips

A minitest plugin that adds a report of the top tests by number of objects allocated.

minitest/mock, by Steven Baker, is a beautifully tiny mock (and stub) object framework. The minitest-mock gem is an extraction of minitest/mock.rb from minitest in order to make it easier to maintain independent of minitest.

Originally written by github user bradleyjames, minitest-proveit forces all tests to prove success (via at least one assertion) rather than rely on the absence of failure.