The Castle MicroKernel is an inversion of control container that was designed towards extensibility. It combines facilities to grow orthogonally. These facilities work side-by-side, without interfering or depending on each other, to allow you to easily extend the container functionality by pluggi...

Human Query Language for full text search engines. Provides a lenient parser and associated tools for a self-contained and search-engine agnostic query language suitable for use by end users. Lenient in that is will produce a parse tree for any input, given a default operator and by generally ign...

This gem provides Sidekiq middleware that extends the functionality of Sidekiq's built-in CurrentAttributes to persist and restore ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes across Sidekiq jobs, with added support for ActiveRecord models. It uses GlobalID for serialization and deserialization of ActiveReco...

This is a simple Ruby-based policy server to serve Flash's crossdomain.xml policy file. The web is increasingly realtime, but websockets still aren't supported on older browser clients. Many server push libraries (e.g. socket.io) attempt to use websockets, with a Flash fallb...

Provide Ruby core source files for C extensions that need them.

Your website should use far-future expires headers on static assets, to make the best use of client-side caching. But when a file is cached, updates won't get picked up. Cache busting is the practice of making the filename of a cached asset unique to its content, so it can be cached without havin...

Squelch squelches SQL! This gem is a purposefully simple string obfuscator. It aims to replace every data literal in a SQL query with a `?` placeholder, as though it were a prepared statement. The result should still be readable SQL, but without the risk of leaking potentially sensitive informat...

Lazy As Json A simple and concise way to use as_json with “only”, “except” and other options without using them literally. Instead of using this - `User.as_json(only: [:id, :first_name, profiles: [:company, :location]])` You can perhaps use this - `User.as_json(only_keys: ‘_,first_name,profi...

Simultaneous is designed for the very specific use case of a small set of users collaborating on editing a single website. Because of that it is optimised for infrequent invocation of very long running publishing tasks and provides an event based messaging system that allows launched tasks to com...

When you need to write a program that provides some sort of persistent service, there are some things you always need. Logging, metrics, extracting configuration from the environment, signal handling, and so on. This gem provides ServiceSkeleton, a template class you can use as a base for your s...

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS: * Order types supported: buy, short, sell and cover * Pulls real-time stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance == SYNOPSIS: Fantasy Stock Exchange app on Facebook (by HedgeStop.com): http://apps.facebook.com/hedgestop/ As of this writing, the Fantasy Stock Exchange application o...

## Dinosaur Catalog It may not be immediately evident, but I am a huge fan of dinosaurs. They're huge and dangerous and have cool names like Giganotosaurus (not to be confused with Gigantosaurus). ... Anyway. I need to catalog some dinosaurs for my newest project, DinoDex. I've got a CSV file ...

swagger23 converts Swagger 2.0 (OAS 2) API specifications into OpenAPI 3.0.3 (OAS 3) specifications. Accepts JSON or YAML input, produces JSON or YAML output. Works as a Ruby library (Swagger23.convert) or a standalone CLI tool (swagger23). Handles paths, parameters, requestBody, components/schem...

Synapse is Airbnb's new system for service discovery. Synapse solves the problem of automated fail-over in the cloud, where failover via network re-configuration is impossible. The end result is the ability to connect internal services together in a scalable, fault-tolerant way. This is a fork...

FAP is a ruby gem build on top of the excellent Nokogiri, to turn boring XML, or HTML documents into yummy ruby objects. Right now, it only support using Nokogiri's XPath selectors, and simple "relations" between a document nodes, though this will hopefully get better. FAP's ideas are loosely c...

RinRuby is a Ruby library that integrates the R interpreter in Ruby, making R's statistical routines and graphics available within Ruby. The library consists of a single Ruby script that is simple to install and does not require any special compilation or installation of R. Since the libr...

Sometimes you mess your Rails application Unix permissions and get some annoying errors with git. This gem runs a simple shell script to fix that. Granting 755 permissions to folders and 644 to files, it also ensures that some special files inside the 'bin/' will recive special 755 permissions (b...

A simple file-system-based cache wrapper. The main method is 'with_cache( :cache_key=>'something_unique', :timeout_seconds=>(an integer) ){ (...) }' If the given cache key exists and has not timed out, it will return the cached value If not, it will * yield to the given block * store the result...

AutoStripAttributes helps to remove unnecessary whitespaces from ActiveRecord or ActiveModel attributes. It's good for removing accidental spaces from user inputs. It works by adding a before_validation hook to the record. It has option to set empty strings to nil or to remove extra spaces inside...

CBOR is a library for the CBOR binary object representation format, based on Sadayuki Furuhashi's MessagePack library.