Similar in behavior to Object#presence defined in ActiveSupport, Significance is a state which determines not just the blank-ness of an object but whether or not the non-blank object has any real-world value. The utility of this gem can best be demonstrated when considering the ...

It allows you to write rake tasks to do common tasks, such as creating email addresses, adding users etc. Silk provides a HTTP wrapper the the rake tasks, and allows communication via JSON objects, which makes it dead easy for them to be called from a web app.

Predict silk-like proteins from its amino acid sequence.

A lightweight, Redis-backed cacher and indexer for databases, REST API's, really anything you can query.

Silverstripe specific deployment recipes

sim_back

Simple lib to define abstract classes

A simple DSL for ActiveRecord objects to include/exclude virtual attributes/custom methods in to_json/to_xml.

Provides a simple API to authenticate with a rails application

Metrics and Benchmarks of your app.

simple bitbucket

A simple, yet caching bitlifier.

Pure ruby caching solution, inspired by ActiveRecord::Cache

Tiny methods for gzip-compressing and expanding a string

Simle confuguration utilies

Arbitrarily crop different styles of your paperclip images

Simplistic documents.

Overrides Ruby code Integer class to provide a fibonacci number less than supplied argument

simple_gcm sends push notifications to Android devices via google GCM

This gotta be longer than summary. :). I will fill it out