Tusk is a minimal pub / sub system with multiple observer strategies. Tusk builds upon the Observer API from stdlib in order to provide a mostly consistent API for building cross thread or process pub / sub systems. Currently, Tusk supports Redis and PostgreSQL as message bus back ends.

UART is a simple wrapper around the ruby-termios gem that gives you an easy interface for setting up a UART or serial connection. This gem is written in pure Ruby. This gem relies on ruby-termios to provide bindings to the termios system call, but uses those bindings to set up a serial connection in pure Ruby.

Vlad plugin for Git support. This was previously part of Vlad, but all modules outside the core recipe have been extracted.

Win32::Console allows controling the windows command line terminal thru an OO-interface. This allows you to query the terminal (find its size, characters, attributes, etc). The interface and functionality should be identical to Perl's counterpart. A port of Perl's Win32::Console and Win32::Console::ANSI modules. This gem packages Gonzalo Garramuno's Win32::Console project, and includes a compiled binary for speed. The Win32::Console project's home can be found at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32console

Zenweb is a set of classes/tools for organizing and formating a website. It is website oriented rather than webpage oriented, unlike most rendering tools. It is content oriented, rather than style oriented, unlike most rendering tools. It uses a rubygems plugin system to provide a very flexible, and powerful system. Zenweb 3 was inspired by jekyll. The filesystem layout is similar to jekyll's layout, but zenweb isn't focused on blogs. It can do any sort of website just fine. Zenweb uses rake to handle dependencies. As a result, scanning a website and regenerating incrementally is not just possible, it is blazingly fast.

A helper suite for Puppet projects to create, manage and help daily development More information about Puppet: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/

Wraps up AVCapture and exposes it to Ruby. This gem only works on OS X.

A set of enhancements to the standard library benchmark.rb

bitcat - bit cat(alog) browser - browse your (digital) bit(s) collections; browse your (crypto) kitties and more

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

This is a remarkably trivial package that makes simply HTML-based presentations from a set up source files written using Textile. It's designed to help when creating slides that contain lots of code, as it allows code to be embedded from external source files. This means that the code that you embed can come from running (and tested) programs. The code in the resulting slides is syntax highlighted, and is hyperlinked to the original source file, allowing that file to be brought up in Textmate.

cryptopunks - generate your own 24×24 pixel punk images from text prompts incl. 2x/4x/8x zoom for bigger sizes (or crop 'n' save tiles from all-in-one composites incl. the True Official Matt & John's® Punks sha256-verified original 10 000 unique character collection)

cryptopunks-graphql - (lite) cryptopunks (http json) graphql api / client

csvpack - work with tabular data packages using comma-separated values (CSV) datafiles in text with datapackage.json; download, read into and query comma-separated values (CSV) datafiles with your SQL database (e.g. SQLite, PostgreSQL, ...) of choice and much more

Faster, Better, Simpler.

Bye GoDaddy, hello DNSimple/Namecheap/Gandi. (Will accept patches for other registrars! Just make another binscript)

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) DoNotWant::NotSafe: User#update_attribute isn't safe because it skips validation

Provide validation/generation for UPC/EAN/GTIN numbers

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.