To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...

sudo gem install rails --version="=1.2.3" rails _1.2.3_ new-project-folder

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rdoc.info

Ruby Rails Any gem

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github.com

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.rubyforge.org

This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...

code.google.com

Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...

theexciter.com

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

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roo

roo.rubyforge.org

This gem allows you to access the content of

sickill.net

If you’re working on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to...

metric-fu.rubyforge.org

Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog...

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pennysmalls.com

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

basement.org

Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll...

gem-session.com

If we want mobile applications to stay around as a sustainable business, we need to be more honest about the...

stevenrbaker.com

Though we ended up switching to what I consider to be a technically superior product based on simplicity, we arrived...

gem-session.com

Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to...

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I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most...

github.com

Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation

gem-session.com

When I realized what had gone wrong, the light almost blinded me.

gem-session.com

But then there are those posts where the author pastes 10 pages of confused code with no context whatsoever and...

gem-session.com

Where there was once a consistent API to manipulate and hook into the lifecycle of a persistent object, plugins must...

stevenrbaker.com

The basics of Isolate, a tool for replacing Bundler in gem management.