QuacksLike is a module for RSpec to add matchers that test if an object is fully duck-typed to pretend to be another class. This kind of thing is really only necessary when passing such an object as the return value in an API where you don't know exactly how it will be consum...

Normally Rails/Rack only checks the '_method' parameter in POST requests, but JSONP requests are always GETs. This railtie enables the '_method' check for all request types, including GET.

Flags is a framework for Ruby which allows the definition of command-line flags, which are parsed in and can be accessed smartly from within your Ruby code. This framework allows for numerous different flag types, and takes care of the process of type conversion and flag validation (type and val...

Lookout Lookout is a unit testing framework for Ruby┬╣ that puts your results in focus. Tests (expectations) are written as follows expect 2 do 1 + 1 end expect ArgumentError do Integer('1 + 1') end expect Array do [1, ...

U U extends Ruby’s Unicode support. It provides a string class called U::String with an interface that mimics that of the String class in Ruby 2.0, but that can also be used from both Ruby 1.8. This interface also has more complete Unicode support...

Rzd is a gem automating checking ticket information for russian railway service rzd.ru. Now it allows to get available ticket types fro given cities and date.

The Preconditions library provides a simple set of methods for checking arguments being passed into a method. Instead of writing custom checks and raising exceptions directly in your code you can use Preconditions to verify basic properties of your arguments (not-nil, satisfying a boolean expres...

All methods that alter the contents of an array that implements this Gem are first checked to ensure that the added items are of the types allowed. All methods behave exactly as their Array counterparts, including additional forms, block processing, etc. Defining a TypedA...

Ame Ame provides a simple command-line interface API for Ruby¹. It can be used to provide both simple interfaces like that of ‹rm›² and complex ones like that of ‹git›³. It uses Ruby’s own classes, methods, and argument lists to provide an interfac...

Various DSLs to clean, question (Ask), and validate (Demand) your objects, their classes (data types), and their properties.

# COM # COM is an object-oriented wrapper around WIN32OLE. COM makes it easy to add behavior to WIN32OLE objects, making them easier to work with from Ruby. ## Usage ## Using COM is rather straightforward. There’s basically four concepts to keep track of: 1. COM objects 2. Instantiable...

RubyBreaker is a dynamic type documentation/checking tool for Ruby. It dynamically instruments code, monitors objects during execution, performs dynamic type checking, and generates type documentation based on the profiled information. RubyBreaker helps Ruby programs "break" out of obscurities an...

== Description A Rack compatible JSON-RPC2 server domain specific language (DSL) - allows JSONRPC APIs to be defined as mountable Rack applications with inline documentation, authentication and type checking. e.g. class Calculator < JSONRPC2::Interface title "JSON-RPC2 Calculator" in...

Create and manage configuration files in Ruby for Ruby. Jeckyl can be used to create a parameters hash from a simple config file written in Ruby, having run whatever checks you want on the file to ensure the values passed in are valid. All you need to do is define a class inheriting from Jeckyl...

# License Create software licenses easily. ## Install ### Bundler: `gem 'license'` ### RubyGems: `gem install license` ## Usage ### Simple ```ruby license = License::Software::MIT.new do |l| l.year.start = 2012 l.author.name = 'Ryan Scott Lewis' l.author.email = 'ryan@rynet.us' end...

# EventReporter EventReporter is a CSV parser and sorter. you can load a CSV and then search it. ## Installation $ gem install the_only_event_reporter_ever $ gem list event_reporter -d ## Usage After installation run: $ event_reporter Then Type 'load <filename>' to load record...

Makes sure users don't accidentally create an account for the wrong e-mail address. Because 'gmial' isn't actually what they meant to type. Similarly, 'yaho.com', or the strange-but-true '.c0m'. Not even making that one up. If you're concerned about false-positives, it's super-easy to check. Ther...

FlexCoerce - is a gem which allow you create operator-dependent coercion logic. It's useful when your type should be treated in a different way for different binary operations (including arithmetic operators, bitwise operators and comparison operators except equality checks: `==`, `===`).

Objective-C style named parameters and type checking for Ruby.

isup is a command line utility to check if a site is up or down. Type 'isup -h' to see the help page.