minitest/unit is a small and fast replacement for ruby's huge and slow test/unit. This is meant to be clean and easy to use both as a regular test writer and for language implementors that need a minimal set of methods to bootstrap a working unit test suite. mini/spec is a functionally complete ...

FTO is an extensible Ruby library for formatting text strings. In function it is similar to <tt>printf(3)</tt>; however, the syntax of the format effectors (sometimes called 'format descriptors') and the selection of effectors bundled with the package are based on the SYS$FAO user-mode system se...

Ruby on Rails supports RESTful routing out-of-the-box. However, as you move along, you will often find yourself repeating the code for the seven REST actions: index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy. This gem allows you to get all of the code for free by simply typing 'include BTech::Rest...

Prow is solving the problem front-end developers have when they try to start a project, and need a server mock to work with. It also solves the problem of creating and serving a static HTML/CSS/JS that includes heavy front-end development work. Prow includes: * Mustach...

A simple library to specify the format of configuration files and the way to turn them into Ruby objects. Ruby1.9 centric. Uses some lazy evaluation. No write support: it's strongly sugested to use ERB or other templating systems for that.

Fakerest is a simple tool based on sinatra which starts a http server (webrick) and exposes restful services based on the configuration specified in a YAML format, which can be used as stub out any external systems

An (extremely light) source-code literate code-specification and -testing system. (see: spark, slack)

Ruby on Rails supports RESTful routing out-of-the-box. However, as you move along, you will often find yourself repeating the code for the seven REST actions: index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy. This gem allows you to get all of the code for free by simply typing 'include Rest' at to...

Enhance your Rails application’s communication capabilities with Communify, a robust gem designed to seamlessly integrate SMS, push notifications, and email logging. Leveraging the power of Twilio and Firebase Cloud Messaging, Communify enables developers to effortlessly send i...

Balsamique (pronounced "Balsami-QUEUE") is a Redis-backed Ruby library which implements a job queue system. Balsamique jobs consist of JSON-encoded args hashes, along with lists of tasks and their successful outputs. Jobs can be enqueued to run at some time in the future, and workers can also d...

CGSN (Chess Game Status Notation) implementation for Ruby. Provides a rule-agnostic vocabulary for identifying game statuses in abstract strategy board games with symbol-based identifiers and immutable sets.

A modern, dependency-free Ruby client for the SMS.ru HTTP API. Send single or bulk SMS, schedule delivery, check cost and delivery status, verify users by phone call, inspect balance/limits/senders, manage the stoplist, and register delivery callbacks.

rspec-turbo runs your RSpec suite across N processes like parallel_tests, but balances work by actual example count (from a single --dry-run) using an LPT bin-packing heuristic, splitting oversized files across workers. It ships a live TTY dashboard, a CI-friendly progress mode, schema-fingerprin...

The cell side of HotCell. A supervisor listens on two Unix sockets, forks a worker per request, holds each worker to a wall-clock deadline and a set of resource limits, and answers for one that dies without reporting. An operation subclasses HotCell::Operation, declares its limits, and implement...

I talked about ((<"Goodbye fat gem"|URL:https://rubykaigi.org/2020/presentations/ktou.html>)) at RubyKaigi Takeout 2020. Fat gem is a gem that includes pre-built binaries. Extension libraries can assume that users have build environment with Ruby 2.4 or later. So gems don't need to bundle pre-bui...

Bestliner is a Ruby wrapper around bestline, a C library for interactive pseudoteletypewriter command sessions using ANSI Standard X3.64 control sequences. Bestliner supports Emacs-style editing shortcuts, a searchable history, completion and hint support via callbacks and UTF-8 editing.

The dep_walker is small utility gem that checks dependencies for native extensions used by installed gems on Windows. If you are {RubyInstaller}[http://www.rubyinstaller.org] user and have seen message box: <em>"This application has failed to start because <name_of_dll>.dll was not found. Re-ins...

zu == Unzipper (in the tradition of `uz`, but better). Works for .tgz, .xz, .zip, .deb, .rpm — you name it. (Literally. If you find an archive that it doesn't open, let me know about it and I'll add that.) If you have an archive sitting there of format `xyz`, then `zu foo.xyz` should take care ...

g1nn13 fork changes: * added buffer() method to get image buffer for writing (to Amazon S3) * added fit_within() method to resize an image to fit within a specified height and width without changing the image's aspect ratio * added resize_with_crop() to resize and crop images where the targe...

The pathname2 library provides an implementation of the Pathname class different from the one that ships as part of the Ruby standard library. It is a subclass of String, though several methods have been overridden to better fit a path context. In addition, it supports file UR...