Tiny methods for gzip-compressing and expanding a string

Simle confuguration utilies

Arbitrarily crop different styles of your paperclip images

Simplistic documents.

Overrides Ruby code Integer class to provide a fibonacci number less than supplied argument

simple_gcm sends push notifications to Android devices via google GCM

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Simple localization your ActiveRecord fields without magic

Acts like a SimpleDelegator implementing a decorator pattern except that it hides the object's methods instead of delegating them by default. Useful for hiding the ugly beast behind the mask.

Gem for parsing METARs fast and simple.

Inspired by ActionMailer, Notifier offers Notifier::Base, a base class for creating notification handlers on any class or instance of a class. Simply define a method in your handler named after the type of object you would like to create notification events for, substituting any namespace "::" d...

Extends Active Record to give pagination functions. Also supplies view helpers and generators to create customised pagination links.

Easy and simple access control.

Range validator for any Range model fields

Translates url commands for searching, paging, sorting, groupion against ActiveRecord and its associations. Provides view helpers including links for order and urls for search, group, and page.

A very simple, smart & elegant shell operations gem

This gem uses the APIs provided by UPS and FedEx to service various requests on behalf of an application. In particular, it is used to create shipping labels so a customer can send a package postage-free

Simple helper to create 'show' pages easily.

A Sinatra application that makes it easy to collect and store web statistics

Sure, ruby is dynamic and that is one of its greatest strength. Object polymorphisms, duck typing, and the like is great in ruby, there is a time and place for everything. Sometimes, it just makes more sense to be strongly typed.