Smurfville is the home of SMURF, a new and modular approach to Rails frontend development based on the SMACSS approach for CSS. This gem provides a set of tools that help following this approach.

Slate is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages

An implementation of the JSON Schema specification. Provides automatic parsing for any given JSON Schema.

Standard Ruby Plugin providing configuration for rubocop-performance

This gem set the autotest (ZenTest) to send messages to software as Growl, LibNotify, and Snarl, displaying a window with the results.

*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...

This plugin provides native Redis instrumentation for monitoring and metrics collection, including: service health, database connectivity, replication status, `INFO` metrics, key counts, list lengths, ...

A Resque plugin. Two or more jobs with the same lock cannot be processed simultaneously by multiple workers. When this situation occurs the second job gets pushed back to the queue.

ActiveRecord like interface for Amazon SimpleDB. Store, query, shard, etc. By http://www.appoxy.com

The ptools (power tools) library provides several handy methods to Ruby's core File class, such as File.which for finding executables, File.null to return the null device on your platform, and so on.

Dradis is an open source framework to enable effective information sharing, specially during security assessments.

If you like the straight forward and effective nature of Strong Parameters and suspect that CanCan might be overkill for your project then you'll love Petergate's easy to use and read action and content based authorizations.

A compact Ruby DSL for building standards-oriented JSON Schema documents from Ruby.

This gem set the autotest to send messages to software as Growl, LibNotify, and Snarl, displaying a window with the results.

Sass compiler and Sinatra routing for SassMeister.com

Better support for legacy database schemas for ActiveRecord, such as columns named class, or any other name that conflicts with an instance method of ActiveRecord.

Flex matching short abbreviations against longer strings is a boon in productivity for typists. Applications like Quicksilver, LaunchBar, and Launchy have made this method of keyboard entry a popular one.

Define custom health checks for your app (as in: are there any new users in the past 24 hours) and see the results in a simple /healthcheck page that you can use to monitor your production app with UptimeRobot, Pingdom, or other monitoring services. It's also useful as a drop-in replacement for t...

This gem is a simple, easy-to-use declarative role-based access control system for Rails

Map helper functions for Sass 3.3 Maps including get-deep and set/set-deep