This contains common ruby extensions mostly taken from Rails, as well as various command-line utilities.

Wrapper for the Uptime, a great remote monitoring tool written in node.js. See https://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime

upaiyun ruby driver

Provide a Settings class to be used in Catarse that will store all data on a table containing key/value pairs.

A way of retrieving UrbanDictionary.com definitions. Gives you access to all definitions of a term and associated data.

A simple ruby interface to Urban Mapping's free and premium neighborhood lookup API

Parse host, file-type, title from URI and attach an alias to host, file-type

Retrieves meta information for a URI from the meturi.com service.

Create url-embeddable hashes from integers, for use in short-url services or simple to shorten resource accesses.

A simple tool to parse out useful information from URLs

All HTML responses passing through Rack will have content-lang header when reaching the webserver. The response body won't need a meta content-lang tag, not even when it's is cached response.

Easy and convenient methods to determine URL elements from a string

URM is Ubuntu Release Manager (urm). It manages Ubuntu releases and switch between them without rebooting PC or using virtual machine.

Retrieves state population and demographic information.

USDA Market is a small library for interacting with the USDA's farmers market api.

Usefull tools

Not a markup language - rather, an library for processing user-contributed text that handles the common ways in which ordinary users add meaning, structure and formatting using plain text.

Extracts Utah pollen levels from intermountainallergy.com and presents them in a hash

A simple version class for Ruby based on Gem::Version, adding some features.

Ruby (and Rails) attribute cleaning support, provides some nice and easy to enhance default normalization strategies.