Respect lets you specify object schema using a Ruby DSL. It also provides validators, sanitizers and dumpers to generate json-schema.org compliant spec. It is perfect to specify JSON document structure.

AuthlogicCas is a CAS (a cross-site authentication system designed at Yale for single sign-on authentication) add-on for the Authlogic authentication system.

Provides an easy way to do something that is possible in Rails but still a bit close to the metal using store_accessor: create typecasted, persistent attributes that are not columns in the database but stored in the JSON "data" column. Also supports infinite nesting of embedded models.

Write distributed systems that are resilient and self-heal. Remote calls can fail or hang indefinietly without a response. Supervision will help to isolate failure and keep individual components from bringing down the whole system.

Shamrock helps you to use stub services in your application by starting a rack service in a Thread

Provides the heise socialshareprivacy plugin for the rails asset pipeline. This lets you add the so-called Heise two click social buttons to your app for more privacy

Decision models answer typed questions about a state instead of generating text. ruby_decision_model builds noul (yes/no probability), choice, and score questions, posts them with a state to a decision-model provider (OpenRouter by default, Typesafe's native API as a second door), and returns nor...

|> Distributed locks with "prioritized lock acquisition queue" capabilities based on the Redis Database. |> Each lock request is put into the request queue (each lock is hosted by its own queue separately from other queues) and processed in order of their priority (FIFO). |> Each lock request liv...

Automatically make same-page links scroll smoothly

Message sender that sends directly to a remote syslog endpoint (Support UDP, TCP, TCP+TLS)

Get rates and tracking info from various shipping carriers. Extracted from Shopify.

Starling is a light-weight, persistent queue server that speaks the memcached protocol. It was originally developed for Twitter's backend.

OptparsePlus provides a lot of small but useful features for developing a command-line app, including an opinionated bootstrapping process, some helpful integration test support, and some classes to bridge logging and output into a simple, unified, interface

Allows simple search forms to be created against an AR3 model and its associations, has useful view helpers for sort links and multiparameter fields as well.

A service skeleton with an emphasis on simplicity

Skylight is a smart profiler for Rails, Sinatra, and other Ruby apps.

A SQLite extension which uses Graft to replicate to and from object storage.

Rails 4, much to everyone's annoyance, provides no option to generate both digest and non-digest assets. Installing this gem automatically creates both digest and non-digest assets which are useful for many reasons. See this issue for more details: https://github.com/rails/sprocke...

Greenletterrs is a console automation framework, similar to the classic utility Expect. You give it a command to execute, and tell it which outputs or events to expect and how to respond to them. Greenletters also includes a set of Cucumber steps which simplify the task of sp...

Accepts orders via http, returns payment info via http or streams updates via websockets, stores orders in a DB