attr_encodable enables you to set up defaults for what is included or excluded when you serialize an ActiveRecord object. This is especially useful for protecting private attributes when building a public API.

Tools for attribute tracking like Hashes with dirty tracking and events, for building hybrid models and generally going beyond what's provided by your local ORM/DRM, while allowing you to expand what you can do with them, live without them, or roll your own

selectable_attr generates extra methods dynamically for attribute which has options

auto calculate collect of depends attribute value and save when that changes

*Atomic archiving/unarchiving for ActiveRecord-based apps* We had the problem that acts_as_paranoid and similar plugins/gems always work on a record by record basis and made it very difficult to restore records atomically (or archive them, for that matter). Because the archive and unarchive met...

Overrides some basic methods for the current model so that calling #destroy sets a 'deleted_at' field to the current timestamp. ActiveRecord is required.

Generates attr_accessors that encrypt and decrypt attributes transparently

Belphanior speech servant outputs speech to attached audio hardware using the 'espeak' command-line tool. To use, * Create a "servant_config" file specifying the host IP and port using the following JSON: {"ip":"127.0.0.1","port":3000} * run bin/belphanior_speech_servant. * C...

The win32-file-attribute library adds several file attribute methods to the core File class which are specific to MS Windows.

# better-initialize A friendlier, dependency-free initialize method for ruby objects. ## Usage Gemfile: gem 'better-initialize', github: 'huned/better-initialize' Code: require 'better_initialize' class Pizza include BetterInitialize attr_accessor :size, :topp...

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...

Simple "Ruby core"-inspired syntactic sugar for defining cached, lazy-loaded attributes which intuitively handle inheritence and attribute redefinition.

Merges HTML attributes from multiple sources with special handling for Stimulus 2.0 data attributes

This gem allows to scrape a website of top 20 architectural attractions of St. Petersburg, Russia, and by the user's choice display an eloquent description of each individual attraction as well as some useful details (if available), such as location, directions, names of other attractions...

Somewhat more radical filters designed to decimate malicious requests during a denial-of-service (DoS) attack by chopping their connection well before your Rack app wastes any significant resources on them – ouch! The filters have been proven to work against certain DoS attacks, however, they mi...

S3 backend module for the Attach gem

Implements Law of Demeter by mapping associated record attributes as own attributes (one-way read-only). Consequently, speeds up SQL queries by removing joins queries between intermediary models, at the cost of slower writes. This is an anti-normalization pattern in favour of actual data-redundan...

Tools for querying AWS Athena

attr_chain for chainable, single method attribute (get|setters)

Creates date and time virtual attributes from a date/time attribute