Color is a Ruby library to provide basic RGB, CMYK, HSL, and other colourspace manipulation support to applications that require it. It also provides 152 named RGB colours (184 with spelling variations) that are commonly supported in HTML, SVG, and X11 applications. A technique for generating monochromatic contrasting palettes is also included. The Color library performs purely mathematical manipulation of the colours based on colour theory without reference to colour profiles (such as sRGB or Adobe RGB). For most purposes, when working with RGB and HSL colour spaces, this won't matter. Absolute colour spaces (like CIE L*a*b* and XYZ) and cannot be reliably converted to relative colour spaces (like RGB) without colour profiles. Color 1.8 adds an alpha parameter to all <tt>#css_rgba</tt> calls, fixes a bug exposed by new constant lookup semantics in Ruby 2, and ensures that <tt>Color.equivalent?</tt> can only be called on Color instances. Barring bugs introduced in this release, this (really) is the last version of color that supports Ruby 1.8, so make sure that your gem specification is set properly (to <tt>~> 1.8</tt>) if that matters for your application. This version will no longer be supported one year after the release of color 2.0.

Cartage provides a repeatable means to create a package for a server-side application that can be used in deployment with a configuration tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt. The package is created with vendored dependencies so that it can be deployed in environments with strict access control rules and without requiring development tool presence on the target server(s). This is the last release of cartage. It's been a fun ride, but Docker-based images are our future at Kinetic Commerce. There is one feature that remains useful, the release-metadata output. We have created a new, more extensible format for which we will be creating a gem to manage this. One example of the implementation can be found at: https://github.com/KineticCafe/release-metadata-ts We will also be replacing `cartage-rack` with a new gem supporting this new format.

Fixtures and Factories living together, mass hysterica

kinetic_cafe_error provides an API-smart error base class and a DSL for defining errors. Under Rails, it also provides a controller concern (KineticCafe::ErrorHandler) that has a useful implementation of +rescue_from+ to handle KineticCafe::Error types. Exceptions in a hierarchy can be handled in a uniform manner, including getting an I18n translation message with parameters, standard status values, and meaningful JSON representations that can be used to establish a standard error representations across both clients and servers.

{Marlowe}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/marlowe] is a Rack middleware that extracts or creates a request ID using a pre-defined header, permitting request correlation across multiple services. When using Rails, Marlowe automatically adds itself to the middleware before <tt>Rails::Rack::Logger</tt>. As of Marlowe 3.0, a Faraday middleware is provided (<tt>require 'marlowe/faraday'</tt>).

Ballot provides a two-way polymorphic scoped voting mechanism for both ActiveRecord (4 or later) and Sequel (4 or later).

cartage-bundler is a plug-in for {cartage}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/cartage] that uses Ruby {Bundler}[http://bundler.io] to install application dependencies into the &lt;tt&gt;vendor/bundle&lt;/tt&gt; path to allow for clean deployments in environments with strict access control rules and without requiring development tools on production servers. Cartage provides a repeatable means to create a package for a server-side application that can be used in deployment with a configuration tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.

This release is the *last* version of cartage-rack. It will be replaced with a different tool in the future, but this release will allow installation in modern Ruby versions. cartage-rack is a plug-in for {cartage}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/cartage] to provide a Rack application that reports on release metadata. Cartage provides a repeatable means to create a package for a Rails application that can be used in deployment with a configuration tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt. The package is created with its dependencies bundled in +vendor/bundle+, so it can be deployed in environments with strict access control rules and without requiring development tool access.

cartage-remote is a plug-in for {cartage}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/cartage] to build a package on a remote machine with cartage. Cartage provides a repeatable means to create a package for a Rails application that can be used in deployment with a configuration tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.

cartage-s3 is a plug-in for {cartage}[https://github.com/KineticCafe/cartage] to upload the built package to Amazon's S3 or a service with a similar interface. Cartage provides a repeatable means to create a package for a Rails application that can be used in deployment with a configuration tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.

Bonus assertions for {Minitest}[https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest], providing assertions I use frequently, supporting only Ruby 2.0 or better.

Stockpile is a simple key-value store connection manager framework. Stockpile itself does not implement a connection manager, but places expectations for implemented connection managers. So far, only Redis has been implemented (stockpile-redis). Stockpile also provides an adapter so that its functionality can be accessed from within a module. Release 2.0 fixes an issue when Stockpile options are provided with an OpenStruct, originally reported as {stockpile-redis#1}[https://github.com/halostatue/stockpile-redis/issues/1]. Support for Ruby 1.9 has been dropped.

stockpile-redis is a connection manager for Redis to be used with {Stockpile}[https://github.com/halostatue/stockpile].