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This description is kinda fuzzy and outdated. More up-to-date statement of concept is in version 3 readme. I'll try to release it at September.

Collection of helpers for any need: strings, enumerables, modules... hundreds of bicycles and shortcuts you ever wanted to implement are here, optimized for performance. Small dev library (constantly in progress): fast and smart logger, binding explorer, backtrace formatter, each is console-colored. Started from basic classes, now it contains low-level helpers for ActiveRecord and makes LibXML more jqueryish.

RMTools helps to throw away some boiler-plate making a code more intuitive. It comes with almost no (<< 10%) performance penalty:

• hash[:id] -> hash.id
• ary.map(&:id) -> ary.ids
• ary.map {|h| h[:id]} -> ary.ids
• comments.posts.sorted_uniq_by_id.select_by_user_id(user_id).sum_points -> comments.map {|c| c.post}.sort_by {|p| p.id}.uniq_by {|p| p.id}.select {|p| p.user_id == user_id}.sum {|p| p.points}

It's still randomly documented since it's just my working tool.

• Ruby code parser (StringScanner-based) reading an array of loaded ruby-files and making accurate hash-table of defined methods {"Class#method" => "def ... end"}
• JSON-formatter for output ruby objects content in HTML presentation in order to inspect big objects using browser graphic abilities
• Set theory based Range extension with support of both begin and end exclusion, and satisfying the next rules:
  • size(0..1) = size(0...1) = 1
  • A = A - B | B
  • A ⊃ B -> size(A - B) = size(A) - size(B)

• Fixed trace_format for exceptions using Thread::Backtrace
• Added String#decapitalize and (for cyrillic strings) #funcap
• RMLogger
• made indifferent of global variables: $panic, $verbose, $quiet
• control log level by
• env variables (globally): LOGLEVEL, DEBUG || VERBOSE, WARN || QUIET, SILENT
• instance methods: log_level=, debug=, log=, info=, warn=, error=

• Ruby 2.1+ behaviour: Since String#b in Ruby 2.1 is now an internal method incompatible with rmtools' String#b, our String#b will not be defined only if ruby version > 2.1. Other methods have been refactored with this in an account.
• RMTools.format_trace fixed double rendering within rails depths

• Ruby 2+ behaviour:

  • Disabled C-extension
  • Used String#encode instead of Iconv#iconv

• String

  • Updated #digit_date to parse full english month names
  • #to_html and #to_xml make, respectively, html- and xml- formed documents by LibXML::XML
  • #to_doc now is deprecated and is alias of #to_html

• String

  • Added #fix_encoding! It differentiates only utf-8 and ansi-1251, though

• Range

  • #include? never raises an exception

• Hash

  • #key_value = to_a.first

• Array

  • #fold[l,r]_ now passes up to 2 arguments to fold itself
  • Aliased sort_along_by => order_by

• Dir

  • Fixed #content for dirs with dotted files only
  • #content now accepts :recursive and :include_dot options turned off by default

• Range

  • #min/#max return #first/#last if called with no block

• Removed "-module" ld_flag from extconf.rb

• Enumerable

  • Added #truth_map. Hash#truth_map maps values to booleans

• File

  • Added ::file? pathname check to ::modify iterator

• ::RMLogger

  • Aliased #info -> #puts to be able to set RMLogger as default logger wherever it's possible
  • Added #get_config

• ::Painter

  • #method_missing now accepts :"" as well as :"[]"
  • Aliased "purple_bold" as "violet", "v"

• Added ::FileWatcher
  • Constantly checks files updated in a directory and does some action whenever a update has been met
  • A subclass, ::ScpHelper copies updated files to specified host

• Array

  • Added #any and #none to iterators pattern

• Hash

  • Fixed #any? (and removed it for Ruby>=1.9)

• Array

  • For ruby >= 1.9.3 #uniq_by[!] is alias of #uniq[!] itself, since it’s native implementation appears to be ~1.4x faster
  • A bit better english singularizer for iterators
  • Added #partition_by iterator

• Enumerable

  • Generalized faster set operations for Array and Set (see rmtools/enumerable/set_ops)
  • Boosted &-operator

• ActiveRecord::Base

  • Added #update_attributes?

• Array Meta-iterators

  • Pattern has became a class variable. New names can be added to pattern by Array::add_iterator_name
  • Speed has been drastically boosted by evaluating of every proper missing method. (Read comments in /enumerable/array_iterators.rb)
  • Using meta-iterators in the new behaviour can smudge Array instance_methods namespace. Although it's not something that bad, that's possible to turn on the old behaviour by Array::fallback_to_clean_iterators!

• Hash#method_missing

  • hash.something gets hash[:something] || hash['something'], not other way
  • hash.something= sets hash['something'] as did it before
  • This change has been caused by large amounts of symbolic options keys and json decode returning symbolic keys (at least with a yajl library).
  • Set behaviour, on the other hand, will not be changed since 1) it will be too hard to debug hashes in an old code; 2) it's not that frequently used; 3) setting hash key directly by :[]= makes a code clearer

• Class

  • Added private #alias_constant

• Array

  • Fixed #avg, #avg_by, #rand_by in case of an empty array: return nil
  • Added #intersects? (alias #x?)
  • Added #rfind_by, #runiq_by and few more iterators

• Symbol

  • Added #+, #split and #method_missing to proxy all possible methods to #to_s

• Range

  • Specified a concept of the extension (/enumerable/range.rb)
  • Changed default Range#include? the way it can take range as argument
  • Added XRange#first(count) and #last(count), analogically to Range#first and #last

• ActiveRecord

  • Moved declarative.rb from Rhack project. ::Base::declarative is a way of making tables like by migrations but on the fly
  • Added ::Base#with_same(<column_name>)
  • ::Base::non_null_scopes ignores non-nullable columns

• Development kit

  • RMTools::timer now resets $quiet and $log.mute_warn to previous values in case of ^C or another exception raised
  • Fixed all potential problems with /dev, so require "rmtools_dev" is deprecated in favour of require "rmtools" and will be removed in the next update
  • Read comments about format_trace in /dev/trace_format.rb
  • BlackHole class is aliased as Void
  • Added :detect_comments and :precede_comments options to ::RMLogger to automatically highlight comment blocks get logged

• Structural changes

  • Moved /b.rb into /core since #b is proved usability through some years
  • Renamed /db into /active_record
  • Merged /ip into /conversions
  • The gem is now being produced in the bundle style: added Gemfile, .gemspec, etc

• Added to Array: #sort_along_by, #indices_map, #each_two
• Added Enumerable#map_hash
• Range
  • Fixed #size for backward ranges
  • Fixed #x? and #-@ for neighbor numbers and non-integers in general
  • added XRange#x?
  • aliased #x? as #intersects?
• Class#init accepts block, auto__init__ed Thread and Proc

• Added ::ValueTraversal and ::KeyValueTraversal modules for treeish dir/enumerable search
• String
  • Cyrillic support: #fupcase, #fdowncase and instant up/down versions
  • #to_search, #squeeze_newlines, #recordize
  • key :js_caller to #parse for JS stacktrace lines as it given by stacktrace.js library
• Added ActiveRecord::Base::boolean_scopes! and ::non_null_scopes!
• Added Object#ifndef for ivars caching
• Fixed bugs
  • Class#init (case with nested classes)
  • ActiveRecord::Base::select_rand (case with :where query)
  • ::rw and ::write (cases with encoding fail and non-string argument)
• Described the library and marked down this readme

• Smartified Array bicycles: #index_where, #indices_where, #set_where, #set_all_where, #del_where, #del_all_where
• Added #arrange_by to Array enumerators
• Added AR::Base::enum for virtual "enum" type support
• Updated detecting of xml charset encoding for ruby 1.9
• Fixed bug with empty trace formatting and Array#get_args with non-equalable argument

• Added Array#select_by and #reject_by pattern-iterators
• Fixed ActiveRecord::Base.select_rand
• Restricted RMTools.format_trace to use with Rails because of hard slowdown
• Updated Proc constants for ruby 1.9

• Update String#parse:caller to parse ruby 1.9 "block level". Now block level processes in RMLogger and RMTools.format_trace
• lib/dev/traceback.rb now applies to ruby > 1.9 as well
• Support of Yajl or (if not installed) JSON for #to_json and #from_json. Overwrites ActiveSupport's ::encode and ::decode since they're so damn slow.

• StringScanner#each changed to compare `cbs' keys with @matched by number in ruby 1.8 and by first character in ruby 1.9, since ?x in 1.9 returns string instead of a charcode
• Updated LibXML::XML::XPath to search elements with multiple classes

• String#hl and #ghl: console-highlight pattern in string
• True#call and False#call in order to pass boolean values as callable argument
• ActiveRecord::Relation#any? and #empty?, ActiveRecord::Base.insert_unless_exist (using execute) and .select_rand
• Added couple of handlers into Array#method_missing
• File.modify now can process files by glob-patterns and correctly use multiple gsub! inside passed block
• RMTools.read now can read from list of files in order
• Upped RMTools.timer accuracy
• Optimized Array#-, #+, #& and #| for when one of arrays is empty; added Array#diff
• Optimized Object#to_json and String#from_json: use JSON stdlib for ruby 1.9. Object#to_json_safe: timeout'ed conversion
• String#cut_line and #split_to_lines optimized for use in Ruby 1.9
• Removed String#bytes because it duplicate ruby 1.9 method
• static VALUE rb_ary_count_items moved from Array#count to Array#arrange
• Fixed Module#self_name
• RMTools::CodeReader is still unstable though

• Renamed debug/ to dev/, slightly restructured lib/rmtools/ and require handlers: requrie 'rmtools' for common applications and 'rmtools_dev' for irb and maybe dev environment
• Slightly extended StringScanner
• Proof of concept: Regexp reverse (wonder if someone did it earlier in Ruby)
• Kernel#whose? to find classes and/or modules knowing some method
• Method code lookup over all loaded libs (it can't handle evals yet), see dev/code_reading.rb
• Coloring is now made by singleton `Painter' and have option for transparent coloring

• Added caller level option (:caller => ) for Logger
• Fixed trace formatting (for sure for this time)
• Array iterator #sum_ now takes argument for #sum as first argument
• Completed Binding#inspect_env components

• Fixed Hash#unify_keys for 1.9.2
• Speeded Array#uniq_by up
• Added some shortcut methods for ActiveRecord::Base

• Deleted String#to_proc. It's anyway inconsistent and causes bug in ActiveRecord 3.0.5 Base#interpolate_and_sanitize_sql and potentially somewhere else
• Solved problem with String#sub methods in 1.9: that's associated with String#to_hash in some mystic way. #to_hash is now #to_params
• Some bugfixes for previous updates

• Cosmetic fixes for txts here

• Rewrited few functions
• Fixed bug with RDoc and RI
• Compatible with 1.9
• Binding#start_interaction and RMTools::Observer for debugging purposes
• To require any file from lib/rmtools now RMTools::require is used
• In order to not overload Rails apps initialization tracing is lightened and gem now may be also required as "rmtools_nodebug" and "rmtools_notrace"

• Fixed some bugs
• Divided by semantics
• Compatible with ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302)

• Divided by classes and packed as gem

RMTools is copyright (c) 2010-2013 Sergey Baev tinbka@gmail.com, and released under the terms of the Ruby license.