Generators for creating an 18F-flavored Rails app

Generate a 4 word password from words of size 3-8 characters, with frequencies in the 30th-60th percentile. This range gives a nice set of uncommon but not completely alien words. $ chbs generate --verbose -W 3..8 -P 30..60 Corpus size: 6396 candidate words of 33075 total Entropy: 48...

adiwg-mdcodes provides code lists for use with editors of ISO 19115-1, ISO 19115-2, ISO 19110, and mdJson compliant metadata. Some codelists include extensions added by the Alaska Data Integration working group (ADIwg).

Temporally Ordered IDs. Generate universally unique identifiers (UUID) that sort lexically in time order. Torid exists to solve the problem of generating UUIDs that when ordered lexically, they are also ordered temporally. I needed a way to generate ids for events that are entering a system with ...

color-tools is a Ruby library to provide RGB, CMYK, and other colourspace support to applications that require it. It also provides 152 named RGB colours. It offers 152 named RGB colours (184 with spelling variations) that are commonly supported and used in HTML, SVG, and X11 applications. A tech...

This gem makes updating specified number fields by ActiveRecord in unusual way. Instead of generating sql script to update value in usual way like this: UPDATE users SET money = 10 WHERE id = 1; It replaces it with UPDATE users SET money = money + de...

Miscellaneous methods that may or may not be useful. sh:: Safely pass untrusted parameters to sh scripts. Raise an exception if the script returns a non-zero value. fork_and_check:: Run a block in a forked process and raise an exception if the process returns a non-zero value. do_and_exit, do_...

# Assuming that today is 1/27/2012 now = Time.new(2012,1,26) puts now.to_meaningful # "1 day ago"

**openMeta** in Ruby (support ruby 1.8, ruby 2.0 with RubyCocoa 1.2.0, and MacRuby). This gem ports [openmeta]( http://code.google.com/p/openmeta/ ) API to ruby using framework. To work with ruby 2.0, update RubyCocoa to 1.2.0.

extends the Object type with the tasty 'in?' method, which returns true if an object is included in a list or other enumerable value. So you can do this: 1.in? [1,2] # => true 3.in? [1,2] # => false

An implementation of AES-CMAC for 128, 192, and 256 bit keys as specified in NIST SP 800-38B and RFC 4493, capable of streaming processing. Also included is an implementation of AES-CMAC-PRF-128 as specified in RFC 4615 and of CMAC-96 as specified in RFC 4494.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS: FiscalCode.calc will throw an ArgumentError Exception if it cannot do the calculation, for example because day,month and years are not in the proper range (1-31,1-12,0-99), or because the city cannot be located in the city database. == SYNOPSIS: Use: FiscalCode.calc(nam...

Miscellaneous methods that may or may not be useful. sh:: Safely pass untrusted parameters to sh scripts. fork_and_check:: Run a block in a forked process and raise an exception if the process returns a non-zero value. do_and_exit, do_and_exit!:: Run a block. If the block does not run exit!, a...

* http://www.rubysideshow.com/ * http://rubysideshow.rubyforge.org/wrong_answer/ == DESCRIPTION: 30 seconds after requiring wrong_answer, 1% of your comparisons will return false when it should have been true, or true when it should have been false. == FEATURES/PROBLEMS: * Sleeps for 30 secon...

Welcome to the "Knuckleheads" game, a (slightly enhanced version of the) fully functional text driven game written in Ruby 1.9 and used as a teaching aid for the excellent web-based Ruby course administered by Pragmatic Studios. W00t! W00t! Before playing, fill the default csv file "players.cs...

An efficient solution to use when it is undesirable to expose internal database ids, IdShuffler converts integers like 123 into strings like 'q34nr1', and vice-versa, using a very lightweight integer scrambling algorithm plus 'Crockford 32' encoding. It is built as a native C extension and so is...

Float and Integer will be converted to whole number, that is 0,1,2,3,4... , when you give a negative num, it will be 0. Also when you give 1.1 => 1 by Float#to_i

A YARP theme for Rabbit (http://rabbit-shocker.org/) with lots of turquoise. Optimized for 16:9 (use with `--width=1600 --height=900 --paper-width=1600 --paper-height=900`). Heavily inspired by the "debian" theme.

keeping track of time in a textfile. now web app, no mouse clicking. No GUI is as easy as "12:13-17:34", and no time tracker i know of allows you to add interrupts like: '0:13 pause: phone call with mum'

This is a very simple text based black jack game. To use: install the gem, type in 'black_jack' to start running the program. There are several commands in the game: "deal" deals the deck "hit" gives another card "stay" allows the dealer to start playing "quit" quits the game Some known limit...