I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of...

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web-applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc...

Guarded method invocation or safe navigation method for Ruby.

Professionals can be recognised by the fact that they minimize complexity. Small modules, complete isolation of modules, minimal (in number...

YAML List of all translations currently available in Rails

Squirrel is an enhancement for ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the database using a more Rubyish...

ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and...

If you know Ruby and you want to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, you’re in...

A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss

theman is a super simple "framework" that uses god/rufus-scheduler to create long running workers that do things at certain times...

There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really...

The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that...

There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your...

Jasmin is an assembler for the Java Virtual Machine. It takes ASCII descriptions of Java classes, written in a simple...

Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.

Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. It takes any number of source files and...

Unfortunately, by default plugin tests are pretty bland. They use the plain unit test suite supplied by Ruby, and not...

Central point to collect locale data for use in Ruby on Rails.

I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from...

HTML sanitizer by the wonko.com guy.

Code smell detector for Ruby

Integrity is the angel watching over your shoulder while you code. As soon as you push your commits, it builds...