Variables: user group use_nginx application mongrel_servers precedence server_name ssl_required forced_prefix database_adapter database_username database_password database_host # optional database_socket # optional

Template-builder is a handy tool that builds a template for your new Ruby on Rails projects. The template contains all you need to build the RoR project that you want.

create thumbnails via RMagick

A very simple XML builder class. + I wanted something really simple that I could easily extend myself later on if I needed to. + Ironically, in four years since I created and used TinyXml, I never needed to extend it :-) I figured, it may as well work for others in that case, so here it is.

Twibot (pronounced like "Abbot"), is a Ruby microframework for creating Twitter bots, heavily inspired by Sinatra.

Logging is a flexible logging library for use in Ruby programs based on the design of Java's log4j library. It features a hierarchical logging system, custom level names, multiple output destinations per log event, custom formatting, and more.

Descriptive configuration files for Ruby written in Ruby. Loquacious provides a very open configuration system written in ruby and descriptions for each configuration attribute. The attributes and descriptions can be iterated over allowing for helpful information about those attributes to be dis...

TURN is a new way to view Test::Unit results. With longer running tests, it can be very frustrating to see a failure (....F...) and then have to wait till all the tests finish before you can see what the exact failure was. TURN displays each test on a separate line with failures being displayed i...

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ullr is a little gem that consumes NOAA weather xml for a given lat/long, and returns a ruby object with 12 hour forecasts along with some sugar to let you know if any sugar will be falling from the sky.

Small library for unpacking various archives, extracted from Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) (and rewritten, in fact).

Represent ActiveRecord Markdown, Textile, Wiki text, RDoc columns as Markdown, Textile Wikitext, RDoc objects using various external libraries to convert to HTML.

A collection of methods for calculating finnish bank references.

* Ruby Implementation of the Interactive Broker' TWS API

*Webby* is a fantastic little website management system. It would be called a *content management system* if it were a bigger kid. But, it's just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And that's really all it does - manages the legwork of turning text into something else, an *ASCII A...

This gem calculates date like 'first tuesday in december 2010' or 'third friday in may 2011' or 'last Saturday in december 2010'

Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a fire and forget manner. There are application concepts (browser, email client, etc) that are common across all platforms, and they may be launched differently on each platform. Launchy is here to make a common approach to la...

Simple package that allows you to manage your newsberry contacts.

A simple wrapper around Win32::Service to present a more 'God' (http://god.rubyforge.org) like interface. Also presents all service information as hashes rather than structs to save on wire transport and multi-platform complexity.

ZiYa allows you to easily create interactive charts, gauges and maps for your web applications. ZiYa leverages flash which offload heavy server side processing to the client. At the root ZiYa allows you to easily generate an XML files that will be downloaded to the client for rendering. Using thi...