Using Passenger for development (with optional SSL)
install apache sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev sudo gem install passenger sudo passenger-install-apache2-module follow the instructions
Freeze (vendor, unpack) a single Ruby gem with and without Bundler
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
How to install the date_performance gem
sudo gem install zip git clone git://github.com/rtomayko/date-performance.git cd date-performance rake package:build cd dist sudo gem install...
Install a gem without RI and RDdoc
To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...
Create an application with an older Rails version
sudo gem install rails --version="=1.2.3" rails _1.2.3_ new-project-folder
Slugs with FriendlyId
Gem to provide nice looking urls ("/blog/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed"). If you don't need anything too special (like i18n for the urls...
Railscheck project home page
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...
bundle-fu - Google Code
Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...
The Exciter - Why You Should Deploy Your Next Application on Ruby 1.9 and a Rant in General
The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that...
roo
This gem allows you to access the content of
Sickill.net - Colorizing console output with Rainbow ruby gem
If you’re working on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to...
metric_fu: A Ruby Gem for Easy Metric Report Generation
Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog...
Pennysmalls
I just released a gem to find image dimensions and type information fast.
Basement.org: On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing
Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll...
Learning from the iPhone's failure as a gaming platform: gem-session.com blog
If we want mobile applications to stay around as a sustainable business, we need to be more honest about the...
Using gem to root a box : ruby
From Bundler to Open and Inclusive Software Communities : Steven R. Baker
Though we ended up switching to what I consider to be a technically superior product based on simplicity, we arrived...
How to split a Ruby class into multiple source files - Gem Session
Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to...
Never write a Cucumber step definition again with Cucumber Factory - Gem Session: gem
I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most...
michaeldv's awesome_print at master - GitHub
Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation
The greatest bug I never fixed - Gem Session
When I realized what had gone wrong, the light almost blinded me.
Why I won't help you - Gem Session
But then there are those posts where the author pastes 10 pages of confused code with no context whatsoever and...