Using ENV is like using raw SQL statements in your code. We all know how that ends...

Process monitoring tool. Inspired from Bluepill and God. Requires Ruby(MRI) >= 1.9.3-p194. Uses Celluloid and Celluloid::IO.

Ruby C bindings to the excellent Yajl JSON stream-based parser library.

retry intermittently failing rspec examples

With ActsAsTaggableOn, you can tag a single model on several contexts, such as skills, interests, and awards. It also provides other advanced functionality.

With ActsAsTaggableOn, you can tag a single model on several contexts, such as skills, interests, and awards. It also provides other advanced functionality.

XML to Hash translator

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail.

When a Cucumber step fails, it is useful to create a screenshot image and HTML file of the current page

Ruby bindings for the Apache Thrift RPC system

Reconnaissance tool for GitHub organizations

Gyoku translates Ruby Hashes to XML

DSL for declaring params and options of the initializer

Simple authorization solution for Rails which is decoupled from user roles. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Simple authorization solution for Rails which is decoupled from user roles. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Simple authorization solution for Rails which is decoupled from user roles. All permissions are stored in a single location.

Strategies for cleaning databases using ActiveRecord. Can be used to ensure a clean state for testing.

Convenient diffing in ruby

Ransack is the successor to the MetaSearch gem. It improves and expands upon MetaSearch's functionality, but does not have a 100%-compatible API.

ruby-vips is a binding for the libvips image processing library. It is fast and it can process large images without loading the whole image in memory.