A bunch of useful recipes to help deployment to the Engine Yard private cloud.

Graph is a type of hash that outputs in graphviz's dot format. It comes with a command-line interface that is easily pluggable. It ships with plugins to graph dependencies and status of installed rubygems, rake tasks, homebrew ports, mac ports, and freebsd ports, coloring leaf nodes blue, outdated nodes red, and outdated leaf nodes purple (red+blue). OSX quick tip: % sudo gem install graph --development % sudo brew install graphviz % gem unpack graph % cd graph* % rake gallery % open gallery/*.png

merkletree - build your own crypto hash trees; named after Ralph Merkle who patented hash trees in 1979; grow your own money on trees

Hunting down random test failures can be very very difficult, sometimes impossible, but minitest-bisect makes it easy. minitest-bisect helps you isolate and debug random test failures. If your tests only fail randomly, you can reproduce the error consistently by using `--seed <num>`, but what then? How do you figure out which combination of tests out of hundreds are responsible for the failure? You know which test is failing, but what others are causing it to fail or were helping it succeed in a different order? That's what minitest-bisect does best.

Looksee lets you examine the method lookup path of objects in ways not possible in plain ruby.

rlp-lite - light-weight machinery to serialize / deserialze via rlp (recursive length prefix)

solidity - (fuzzy) lexer & parser for (crypto) contracts for ethereum & co.

sportdb - sport.db Command Line Tool

alphabets - alphabet (a-z) helpers incl. unaccent, downcase, variants, and more

date-formats - read / parse and print dates (and times) from around the world

DNS Service Discovery (aka Bonjour, MDNS) API for Ruby. Implements browsing, resolving, registration and domain enumeration. Supports avahi's DNSSD compatibility layer for avahi 0.6.25 or newer.

enums - safe enumeration types - a set of symbolic keys bound to unique integer numbers (incl. bit flags option)

football-sources - get football match data (leagues, cups & more) via web pages or web api (json) calls

ImageScience is a clean and happy Ruby library that generates thumbnails -- and kicks the living crap out of RMagick. Oh, and it doesn't leak memory like a sieve. :) For more information including build steps, see http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/

Use any HTML template as a theme generator for your Rails app. Installs an HTML template, and its CSS, JavaScript and image assets into your Rails app, ready to go in an instant. You just tell it which DOM elements are special, e.g. where to put the <%= yield %>, load your app in the browser and see the theme in action.

Isolate is a very simple RubyGems sandbox. It provides a way to express and automatically install your project's Gem dependencies.

Generate meme images using http://memegenerator.net! Save yourself some time!

autotest is a continous testing facility meant to be used during development. As soon as you save a file, autotest will run the corresponding dependent tests. minitest-autotest is the latest incarnation of the venerable and wise autotest. This time, it talks to minitest via minitest-server. As a result, there is no output parsing. There are no regexps to tweak. There's no cruft or overhead.

RinRuby is a Ruby library that integrates the R interpreter in Ruby, making R's statistical routines and graphics available within Ruby. The library consists of a single Ruby script that is simple to install and does not require any special compilation or installation of R. Since the library is 100% pure Ruby, it works on a variety of operating systems, Ruby implementations, and versions of R. RinRuby's methods are simple, making for readable code. The {website [rinruby.ddahl.org]}[http://rinruby.ddahl.org] describes RinRuby usage, provides comprehensive documentation, gives several examples, and discusses RinRuby's implementation.

score-formats - read / parse and print sports match scores (incl. half time, full time, extra time, penalties and more)