BRASS stands for Bare-Metal Ruby Assertion System Standard. It is a very basic foundational assertions framework for other assertion and test frameworks to make use so they can all work together harmoniously.

Regex is a simple commmand-line Regular Expression tool that makes it easy to search documents for content matches.

Use TomDoc documentation format with YARD.

Assertive Expressive is an assertions library specifically designed for reuse by other test frameworks.

Think of Executable as a *COM*, a Commandline Object Mapper, in much the same way that ActiveRecord is an ORM, an Object Relational Mapper. A class utilizing Executable can define a complete command line tool using nothing more than Ruby's own method definitions.

Finder is a general purpose file finder for Ruby. Finder can search RubyGems, Roll libraries and Ruby's standard $LOAD_PATH and system data directory for the active or the most current library files. It is especially useful for implementing library-based plugin systems.

Sanitize and sterilize HTML, also includes a CSS filter.

Lemon is a unit testing framework that tightly correlates class to test case and method to test unit.

Parametric Mixins provides parameters for mixin modules.

Every Rubyist is aware of Minero Aoki's ever useful setup.rb script. It's how most of us used to install our Ruby programs before RubyGems came along. And it's still mighty useful in certain scenarios, not the least of which is the job of the distribution package managers. While still providing the usual setup.rb script that one can distribute with a project, Setup also works as a stand-alone application. Instead of distributing setup.rb with a package, just instruct your users to install Ruby Setup and use it instead.

TomParse provides no other functionality than to take a code comment and parse it in to a convenient object-oriented structure in accordance with TomDoc standard.

Anise is an annotations systems for the Ruby programming lanaguage.

Assay defines assertions in the same way that Ruby defines exceptions. Each type of asserition, called an assay, is then a child of the base Assertion class, which itself is a subclass of the Exception class.

Assay MiniTest defines a set of MiniTest-compatible assertion and extension method which seemlessly delegate on Assay assertions. This allows developers to change test frameworks without having to completely rewrite a slew of previously written MiniTest-based tests and/or sepcifications.

Assay TestUnit defines a set of TestUnit-compatible assertion methods which depend on Assay's assertion classes. This allows developers to change test frameworks without having to change a slew of previously defined assertions.

Backload provides callbacks for Ruby's #require and #load methods.

Bang! Bang! provides a dynamic assertions framework utlizing bang methods and built to BRASS standards.

Be (Behavioral expectations) is a fully versitle, light-weight and BRASS compliant assertions framework for Ruby. It utilizes an *assertor* design (*matchers* in RSpec terminology) which meshes well with BDD nomenclatures.

Alternate loading system for Ruby allowing version multiplicity.

Simple two-way encryption/decryption class.