Are you tired of writing custom code to parse and represent every new configuration file utilized in your programs? The Config Toolkit generates configuration classes and can populate them robustly by parsing different formats of configuration files.

This gem simplifies monitoring / reporting cron jobs on unix systems. It provides a number of configurable features. Specifically, it can log the output of cron jobs to a file or syslog, rotate the cron job log files, email the user the results of the cron job, time out cron jobs that run past a configurable time out, and more.

This package simplifies sending emails outside of the Rails environment. It is a wrapper around the ActionMailer package. Support for smtp over tls is included if you are using Ruby 1.8.7 or above. The API provided is very bare, but can be easily extended. The email configuration is provided through a user-specified configuration file (identical to the ActionMailer configuration in environment.rb in Rails except for the added tls option). This package is most useful in the situation that a user has a number of scripts (outside of the Rails environment) that all send very basic emails (to, from, body, subject).