Ostiary is a security gem for your (rails) controllers & actions. It employs a before_filter-like call to set policies per controller/action. You can pass your own security call in block and handle the PolicyBroken yourself. Policies are also inherited from parent classes. ...

Extend your classes with simple methods for creating elegant plain-ruby models

Chimera is an object mapper for Riak and Redis. The idea is to mix the advantages of Riak (scalability, massive data storage) with Redis (atomicity, performance, data structures). You should store the bulk of your data in Riak, and then use Redis data structures where appropriate (for example, a ...

Sync your translations files and generate file with model attributes

This gem simplifies the process of database migration or replication by providing a straightforward interface to copy tables and their data, while allowing fine-grained control over the selection of tables and attributes.

This gem enables users to learn more about music artists with data from the Spotify API. Users are prompted to search for an artist. The app returns the first search result from Spotify and allows users to see the artist's top tracks, album releases, genres or related artists. For the latter opti...

A simple way to put a proxy in front of any object, at any time.

Define a specification of a json structure, as well as composing methods to verify its content. Then use this tool to recursively run through the data, and validate it matches your specification. We've used this extensively to verify json API responses at NRK.

Utilities to use Verizon's email to text message service at vtext.com.

A Resque plugin. If you want only one instance of your job queued or executing at a time, extend it with Resque::Jobs::QueueLock and/or Resque::Jobs::ExecutionLock.

Sortable-model provides a DSL for creating named scopes that order the object in question based on its own attributes or those of its associations. It also provides a method for calling those scopes that allows the values to come directly from params without the risk of arbitrary code execution.

Classroom example of a wrapper gem. Using OOP to wrap the PokéAPI at https://pokeapi.co/

["This gem adds the integration for the nobrainer gem in Capistrano.\n\nIt creates the indexes automatically and run the database migration if any (WARNING: You need to use the zedtux's nobrainer fork in order to use migration scripts until it get merged).\n\n| Feature | capis...

Unlike andand, andand2 can be placed at the start of a chain, not just where you anticipate nils.

A Rack Middleware component to authenticate against a CAS server. I (shamefully) forgot to attribute this to https://github.com/garnieretienne/rubycas-client-sinatra. I had reached out to garnieretienne and he was no longer interested in his project. There is also rack-cas-client gem but that wa...

This gem will add the possibility to turn your Rails application into a trivia game with the ease of generating a migration. The only thing you need is a model class with a sortable attribute and this gem.

Like a modern code version of the mythical beast with 100 serpent heads, Typhoeus runs HTTP requests in parallel while cleanly encapsulating handling logic. (This is Marnen Laibow-Koser's fork of the original Typhoeus gem, available at https://github.com/dbalatero/typhoeus.)

This gem is for printing hyperlinks in supported terminal emulators. It is a simple wrapper that abstracts the ANSI characters usually required to achieve this, which are annoying to type out. Check out the gist that inspired this gem at: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f...

foundation-datepicker's JavaScripts & Stylesheets for Rails 3.1+ asset pipeline. Actual javascript plugin belongs to 'najlepsiwebdesigner' and could be found at appropriate GitHub repo: https://github.com/najlepsiwebdesigner/foundation-datepicker

Do 'em all at once.