The National Library of Medicine API, "Medlineplus Connect", can be somewhat cantankerous to work with. Query params are non sensical to end users, query format is from a bygone era, and the resulting responses often contain large amounts of superficial information. The response structures are so...

S3Share allows simple uploads to Amazon S3 from your command line. Set your access ENV variables (see website) and upload the file: $ s3.rb kezia.png kezia.png uploaded to: http://s3.amazonaws.com/heroin-uploads/kezia.png

Cassowary is an incremental constraint solving toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities. Constraints may be either requirements or preferences. Client code specifies the constraints to be maintained, and the solver updates the constrained variables to have ...

This program is a game written for the Ruby course at pragmaticstudio.com. Excellent course by the way if you are considering learning Ruby. I highly recommend both learning Ruby and this course. The game is fairly straight forward. Players are loaded by default from a players.csv file, however ...

SimpleJSON is a Rack based JSON frontend server to Amazon's SimpleDB, designed to be used as a simple backend data servers for client side web apps.

Easily setup postgres, mysql databases and the nginx (http://sysoev.ru/nginx/) and apache web servers in any combination and on any posix host (ubuntu for now) using capistrano. == FEATURES/PROBLEMS: * install nginx from source/binary * setup & configure nginx * add init script * tasks to s...

A simple attachment system (file system or Amazon S3) that also handles thumbnails or other styles via ImageMagick. Originaly tested on Sequel ORM but purposedly easy to plug to something else.

WordSearcher generates a new word search puzzle with your input word, then tries to solve the puzzle. It is not programmed to win every game. It simply compares each letter of the word with all those available on the board, then randomly selects one. Then, it looks to see if the next letter of...

This is implemented as an "external DSL" in Ruby; that is (like SQL for example), a "program" in a Ruby string is passed into some kind of parser/interpreter method. In this case, it is possible to use the result "as is" or to convert to an ordinary Ruby regular expression. Though this mini-la...

== Xolo Xolo (sorta pronounced 'show-low') is an HTTPS server and set of command-line tools for macOS that provide automatable access to the software deployment and patch management aspects of {Jamf Pro}[https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/] and the {Jamf Title Editor}[https://learn.jamf.com/e...

# SDKs generated by Sideko Netlify is a hosting service for the programmable web. It understands your documents and provides an API to handle atomic deploys of websites, manage form submissions, inject JavaScript snippets, and much more. This is a REST-style API that uses JSON for serialization ...

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS: Chirp is a DSL for manipulating file systems. In the same way that rake is aimed at making system buildig easy, chirp is designed to make doing things to entire file systems easy. Chirp is still very much in development and you should be very careful with it: since chirp ...

Versioning when using git, solved. GitVersion looks at your git history and works out the semantic version of the commit being built.

A simple Resque plugin that times and saves some simple metrics for Resque jobs back into redis. Based on this system you could build some simple auto-scaling mechanism based on the speed and ETA of queues. Also includes a hook/callback mechanism for recording/sending the metrics to your favorite...

Baal is a Ruby wrapper for start-stop-daemon that attempts to make your start-stop-daemon scripts easier to build and read while still providing the same options you are used to. Baal, through start-stop-daemon, provides a myriad of ways to start new daemon processes and check the status of and s...

Blacklight is an open source Solr user interface discovery platform. You can use Blacklight to enable searching and browsing of your collections. Blacklight uses the Apache Solr search engine to search full text and/or metadata.

Hirb currently provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed to improve irb's default output. Hirb improves console output by providing a smart pager and auto-formatting output. The smart pager detects when an output exceeds a screenful and thus only pages output as needed. A...

OpenClacky is a 100% open-source (MIT) AI Agent that matches Claude Code on capability at comparable cost. Built on two years of agentic R&D, it ships with a minimal 16-tool core, near-100% prompt cache hit rate, idle-time auto-compression, and BYOK support for any OpenAI-compatible model. A natu...

cijoe is a sinatra-based continuous integration server. It's like an old rusty pickup truck: it might be smelly and gross, but it gets the job done.

A Ruby C extention that is used to control access to shared resources across process boundaries with SysV semaphores.