Because you would rather spend your time building stuff than fighting provisioning

smalruby is a 2D game development library. This is part of "Smalruby" project that is a learning ruby programming environment for kids.

This client library records Ruby exceptions to Squash.

Run isolated cookbook tests against your chef repository with Strainer.

Support library for DataMapper and Merb

Gem to use the SurveyGizmo.com REST API, v3+

A Ruby wrapper for the TeamCity Rest API

Tenacity provides a database client independent way of specifying simple relationships between models backed by different databases.

A Rake-based helper for building and distributing Rust-based Ruby extensions

Ruby FFI bindings for the Hunspell spell checker.

Transducers, composable algorithmic transformations

The transloadit gem allows you to automate uploading files through the Transloadit REST API

The transloadit-rails gem allows you to automate uploading files through the Transloadit REST API

library for interacting with packagecloud.io

Trucker is a gem for migrating legacy data into a Rails app

upnp provides the tools you need to build an app that runs in a UPnP environment. This is a pre-release gem and is subject to substantial change.

An ORM using the Data Mapper pattern, specifically built to solve Digital Repository use cases.

Generates modules that provide conventional value semantics for a given set of attributes. The behaviour is similar to an immutable `Struct` class, plus extensible, lightweight validation and coercion.

Use Watir (http://github.com/watir/watir) in Rails.

A Rails grid plugin to create grids with sorting, pagination, and filters generated automatically based on column types. The contents of the cell are up for the developer, just like one does when rendering a collection via a simple table. WiceGrid automates implementation of filters, ordering, paginations, CSV export, and so on. Ruby blocks provide an elegant means for this.