FeedTools is a simple Ruby library for handling rss, atom, and cdf parsing, generation, and translation as well as caching. It attempts to adhere to Postel’s law—i.e. a liberal parsing and conservative generation policy.

Effortless backend interface for Ruby on Rails applications. (Admin scaffold generator.)

A collection of useful utilities for Capistrano deployments

Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Rcov, Reek, Roodi, Subversion, Git, and Rails built-in stats task to create a series of reports. It's designed to integrate easily with CruiseControl.rb by placing files in the Custom Build Artifacts folder.

Asynchronous JavaScript and CSS, also known as CSSHttpRequest, is a method of URI-encoding data in 2KB chunks split over several CSS rules with a modified data URI scheme. Because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy, no service proxy is required.

Trample is a more flexible load simulator. Instead of a static list of urls, trample's configuration language is ruby. Using ruby's blocks (lambda functions), it's possible to randomize the requests that get made in each thread, as well as the user that logs in.

I just released a gem to find image dimensions and type information fast.

Debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middlewa

Rfm brings your FileMaker data to Ruby with elegance and speed. Now your Ruby scripts and Rails applications can talk directly to your FileMaker server with a syntax that just feels right.

The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do, we can produce software without having to pay those annoying software craftsman ridiculous amounts of money

FastImage Resize is an extremely light solution for resizing images in ruby by using libgd

Named arguments for Ruby constructors.

Rake tasks to run specs and tests in parallel, to use multiple CPUs and speedup test runtime.

We had a conversation about the fact that the 'TDD is about testing vs TDD is about design" debate that keeps popping up, especially now in the Ruby community.

In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to make building desktop apps as simple (and fun) as building Rails websites.

For all of my professed admiration of Ruby on rails, I personally don't think that easier and more productive CRUD application writing will shake things up. I personally care very much about writing applications in a tenth of the time, but using Rails is like listening to Jaco Pastorius. The real learning experience comes when you try to duplicate the feat.

A/Bingo is a Ruby on Rails A/B testing framework written as a plugin.

Rio is a facade for most of the standard ruby classes that deal with I/O; providing a simple, intuitive, succinct interface to the functionality provided by IO, File, Dir, Pathname, FileUtils, Tempfile, StringIO, OpenURI and others. Rio also provides an application level interface which allows many common I/O idioms to be expressed succinctly.

It's important, however, that his wonderful code live on, and we need your help to do so. We've mirrored what repos we could find and contacted github tech support, who have promised assistance. Whymirror will do what it can to ease the transition but CANNOT be a long-term solution

You want to try out all of the different ruby interpreters and versions including different patchlevels, but you don't want to break what's working for you now. No time to waste?

Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications. Celerity aims at being API compatible with Watir.