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 expression, being of a certain type/duck-type) and raise the appropriate exception for you.

rubber-c-binder allows a rubyish means of generating bindings for C libraries, including (but not limited to) GObject based libraries. It allows C code to be written in the context of a ruby style class/method layout and eases type checking and conversion between Ruby & C datatypes.

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.

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 value checking).

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.

# 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 COM objects 3. COM events 4. COM errors Let’s look at each concept separately, using the following example as a base. module Word end class Word::Application < COM::Instantiable def without_interaction with_properties('displayalerts' => Word::WdAlertsNone){ yield } end def documents Word::Documents.new(com.documents) end def quit(saving = Word::WdDoNotSaveChanges, *args) com.quit saving, *args end end ### COM Objects ### A COM::Object is a wrapper around a COM object. It provides error specialization, which is discussed later and a few utility methods. You typically use it to wrap COM objects that are returned by COM methods. If we take the example given in the introduction, Word::Documents is a good candidate: class Word::Documents < COM::Object DefaultOpenOptions = { 'confirmconversions' => false, 'readonly' => true, 'addtorecentfiles' => false, 'visible' => false }.freeze def open(path, options = {}) options = DefaultOpenOptions.merge(options) options['filename'] = Pathname(path).to_com Word::Document.new(com.open(options)) end end Here we override the #open method to be a bit easier to use, providing sane defaults for COM interaction. Worth noting is the use of the #com method to access the actual COM object to invoke the #open method on it. Also note that Word::Document is also a COM::Object. COM::Object provides a convenience method called #with_properties, which is used in the #without_interaction method above. It lets you set properties on the COM::Object during the duration of a block, restoring them after it exits (successfully or with an error). ### Instantiable COM Objects ### Instantiable COM objects are COM objects that we can connect to and that can be created. The Word::Application object can, for example, be created. Instantiable COM objects should inherit from COM::Instantiable. Instantiable COM objects can be told what program ID to use, whether or not to allow connecting to an already running object, and to load its associated constants upon creation. The program ID is used to determine what instantiable COM object to connect to. By default the name of the COM::Instantiable class’ name is used, taking the last two double-colon-separated components and joining them with a dot. For Word::Application, the program ID is “Word.Application”. The program ID can be set by using the .program_id method: class IDontCare::ForConventions < COM::Instantiable program_id 'Word.Application' end The program ID can be accessed with the same method: Word::Application.program_id # ⇒ 'Word.Application' Connecting to an already running COM object is not done by default, but is sometimes desirable: the COM object might take a long time to create, or some common state needs to be accessed. If the default for a certain instantiable COM object should be to connect, this can be done using the .connect method: class Word::Application < COM::Instantiable connect end If no running COM object is available, then a new COM object will be created in its stead. Whether or not a class uses the connection method can be queried with the .connect? method: Word::Application.connect? # ⇒ true Whether or not to load constants associated with an instantiable COM object is set with the .constants method: class Word::Application < COM::Instantiable constants true end and can similarly be checked: Word::Application.constants? # ⇒ true Constants are loaded by default. When an instance of the instantiable COM object is created, a check is run to see if constants should be loaded and whether or not they already have been loaded. If they should be loaded and they haven’t already been loaded, they’re, you guessed it, loaded. The constants are added to the module containing the COM::Instantiable. Thus, for Word::Application, the Word module will contain all the constants. Whether or not the constants have already been loaded can be checked with .constants_loaded?: Word::Application.constants_loaded # ⇒ false That concludes the class-level methods. Let’s begin with the #connected? method among the instance-level methods. This method queries whether or not this instance connected to an already running COM object: Word::Application.new.connected? # ⇒ false This can be very important in determining how shutdown of a COM object should be done. If you connected to an already COM object it might be foolish to shut it down if someone else is using it. The #initialize method takes a couple of options: * connect: whether or not to connect to a running instance * constants: whether or not to load constants These options will, when given, override the class-level defaults. ### Events ### COM events are easily dealt with: class Word::Application < COM::Instantiable def initialize(options = {}) super @events = COM::Events.new(com, 'ApplicationEvents', 'OnQuit') end def quit(saving = Word::WdDoNotSaveChanges, *args) @events.observe('OnQuit', proc{ com.quit saving, *args }) do yield if block_given? end end end To tell you the truth this API sucks and will most likely be rewritten. The reason that it is the way it is is that WIN32OLE, which COM wraps, sucks. It’s event API is horrid and the implementation is buggy. It will keep every registered event block in memory for ever, freeing neither the blocks nor the COM objects that yield the events. ### Errors ### All errors generated by COM methods descend from COM::Error, except for those cases where a Ruby error already exists. The following HRESULT error codes are turned into Ruby errors: HRESULT Error Code | Error Class -------------------|------------ 0x80004001 | NotImplementedError 0x80020005 | TypeError 0x80020006 | NoMethodError 0x8002000e | ArgumentError 0x800401e4 | ArgumentError There are also a couple of other HRESULT error codes that are turned into more specific errors than COM::Error: HRESULT Error Code | Error Class -------------------|------------ 0x80020003 | MemberNotFoundError 0x800401e3 | OperationUnavailableError Finally, when a method results in any other error, a COM::MethodInvocationError will be raised, which can be queried for the specifics, specifically #message, #method, #server, #code, #hresult_code, and #hresult_message. ### Pathname ### The Pathname object receives an additional method, #to_com. This method is useful for when you want to pass a Pathname object to a COM method. Simply call #to_com to turn it into a String of the right encoding for COM: Word::Application.new.documents.open(Pathname('a.docx').to_com) # ⇒ Word::Document ## Installation ## Install COM with % gem install com ## License ## You may use, copy and redistribute this library under the same [terms][1] as Ruby itself. [1]: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt ## Contributors ## * Nikolai Weibull

a Rails gem that allows you to validate a URL entered in a form. It validates if the URL exists by hitting it with a HEAD request. The improved version includes retries for common patterns when the head request is refused before giving a failure notice. It also looks up a SITE_URL constant to the user agent in the headers. Also has the option to also check that the URL returns content of a specified type.

Property types that add CHECK constraints to your DB and validations to your model. Data integrity FTW.

Sinja is a Sinatra extension for quickly building RESTful, {json:api}-compliant web services, leveraging the excellent JSONAPI::Serializers gem for payload serialization. It enhances Sinatra's DSL to enable resource-, relationship-, and role-centric API development, and it configures Sinatra with the proper settings, MIME-types, filters, conditions, and error-handling. There are many parsing (deserializing), rendering (serializing), and other "JSON API" libraries available for Ruby, but relatively few that attempt to correctly implement the entire {json:api} server specification, including routing, request header and query parameter checking, and relationship side-loading. Sinja lets you focus on the business logic of your applications without worrying about the specification, and without pulling in a heavy framework like Rails. It's lightweight, ORM-agnostic, and Ember.js-friendly!

# Gadget Some methods for getting metadata and other deep details from a PostgreSQL database. ## Installation Add this line to your application's Gemfile: gem 'gadget' And then execute: $ bundle Or install it yourself as: $ gem install gadget ## Usage `#tables(conn)` Returns a list of all tables in the schema reachable through `conn`. `#columns(conn, tablename=nil)` Returns a list of all columns in the schema reachable through `conn`. If `tablename` is given, returns the columns in only that table. `#foreign_keys(conn, tablename=nil)` Returns a list of all foreign keys in the schema reachable through `conn`. If `tablename` is given, returns the foreign keys in only that table. `#constraints(conn, tablename=nil)` Returns a list of all constraints in the schema reachable through `conn`. If `tablename` is given, returns the constraints in only that table. `#dependencies(conn)` Returns a structure representing the dependencies between tables in the schema reachable through `conn`. Table A is defined as dependent on table B if A contains a foreign key reference to B. `#tables_in_dependency_order(conn)` Returns a list of all tables in the schema reachable through `conn`, ordered such that any given table appears later in the list than all of its dependencies. `#dependency_graph(conn)` Returns `.dot` script (suitable for feeding into Graphviz) describing the table dependency graph. `#functions(conn)` Returns a list of all functions in the schema reachable through `conn`. `#sequences(conn)` Returns a list of all sequences in the schema reachable through `conn`. `#triggers(conn)` Returns a list of all triggers in the schema reachable through `conn`. `#types(conn)` Returns a list of all types in the schema reachable through `conn`. ## Contributing 1. Fork it 2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`) 3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`) 4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`) 5. Create new Pull Request

Install gsl, statistics2 and provides a C extension to optimize the following methods * Vector#frecuencies * Vector#set_valid_data * Vector#check_type * Dataset#case_as_hash * Dataset#case_as_array * Bivariate::Tetrachoric

It is a delegate library that checks the type of an argument

RubyLess is an interpreter for "safe ruby". The idea is to transform some "unsafe" ruby code into safe, type checked ruby, eventually rewriting some variables or methods.

ALPHA Alert -- just uploaded initial release. Linux inotify is a means to receive events describing file system activity (create, modify, delete, close, etc). Sinotify was derived from aredridel's package (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-inotify/), with the addition of Paul Boon's tweak for making the event_check thread more polite (see http://www.mindbucket.com/2009/02/24/ruby-daemons-verifying-good-behavior/) In sinotify, the classes Sinotify::PrimNotifier and Sinotify::PrimEvent provide a low level wrapper to inotify, with the ability to establish 'watches' and then listen for inotify events using one of inotify's synchronous event loops, and providing access to the events' masks (see 'man inotify' for details). Sinotify::PrimEvent class adds a little semantic sugar to the event in to the form of 'etypes', which are just ruby symbols that describe the event mask. If the event has a raw mask of (DELETE_SELF &amp; IS_DIR), then the etypes array would be [:delete_self, :is_dir]. In addition to the 'straight' wrapper in inotify, sinotify provides an asynchronous implementation of the 'observer pattern' for notification. In other words, Sinotify::Notifier listens in the background for inotify events, adapting them into instances of Sinotify::Event as they come in and immediately placing them in a concurrent queue, from which they are 'announced' to 'subscribers' of the event. [Sinotify uses the 'cosell' implementation of the Announcements event notification framework, hence the terminology 'subscribe' and 'announce' rather then 'listen' and 'trigger' used in the standard event observer pattern. See the 'cosell' package on github for details.] A variety of 'knobs' are provided for controlling the behavior of the notifier: whether a watch should apply to a single directory or should recurse into subdirectores, how fast it should broadcast queued events, etc (see Sinotify::Notifier, and the example in the synopsis section below). An event 'spy' can also be setup to log all Sinotify::PrimEvents and Sinotify::Events. Sinotify::Event simplifies inotify's muddled event model, sending events only for those files/directories that have changed. That's not to say you can't setup a notifier that recurses into subdirectories, just that any individual event will apply to a single file, and not to its children. Also, event types are identified using words (in the form of ruby :symbols) instead of inotify's event masks. See Sinotify::Event for more explanation. The README for inotify: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/README Selected quotes from the README for inotify: * "Rumor is that the 'd' in 'dnotify' does not stand for 'directory' but for 'suck.'" * "The 'i' in inotify does not stand for 'suck' but for 'inode' -- the logical choice since inotify is inode-based." (The 's' in 'sinotify' does in fact stand for 'suck.')

ruby-contract provides support for describing and using types via unit-tests. It offers support for specifying contracts (Contract), method signature checks (Module#signature), automatic adaption between types (Kernel#adaption) and integration with the classic message- and class-based typing.

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 consumed, but it needs to "quack like an Array" or something. It does its job by checking every instance method in the class that the target object needs to "quack like" and makes sure the target both responds to that method name and that the arity of the method is appropriate.

The strongtyping gem is a Ruby library that provides type checking and method overloading.

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

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

This gem with asks user input for there state name, then will prompt the use to type there city they would like to check the daily weather of.