Creating a SOA requires a centralized location to define all services within the SOA. Furthermore you want to know where to deploy those services.

Flexible connection pooling for Ruby.

Command line project documentation and task runner

HPE 3PAR Software Development Kit for Ruby

The Ruby cloud services library. Supports all major cloud providers including AWS, Rackspace, Linode, Blue Box, StormOnDemand, and many others. Full support for most AWS services including EC2, S3, CloudWatch, SimpleDB, ELB, and RDS.

A <hr /> tag for your terminal

Prepends 'http://' to what appears to be absolute links that are missing a protocol. For example: "www.example.com/some/path" can be assumed to mean "http://www.example.com/some/path"

Write SQL queries with Mustache and easily render them for specific dates/times

Convert HTML document to Microsoft Word document. This gem is in active development.

Ruby library for creating Docx from HTML output

Ruby gem to test for valid HTML5 markup with RSpec

A small collection of utilities to ease working with hashes of HTML attributes

Fast extensible html5 builder in pure Ruby

Massages HTML how you want to: sanitize tags, remove headers and footers; output to html, markdown, or plain text.

Ruby wrapper for kangax js library html-minifier. If you want pure ruby use html_press

HTML Pipeline filter that replaces hashtags with links.

Render Markdown via HTML::Pipeline in Rails.

The html-table library provides an interface for generating HTML tables in a syntax comfortable to Ruby programmers, but with some enforcement of where certain elements can be placed.

A lightweight framework for doing http-connections in Ruby. Supports cookies, keep-alive, compressing and much more.

This gem works mostly as HTTParty, but has automatic saving and sending of cookies to the server.