Demeter is back with a vengeance. Prevent your models from violating his sacred law and you shall be spared.

YAML based deployment framework for your code.

Derailer is a small program built out of a peculiar need. It started as a script to publish content generated using a Ruby on Rails application without actually running the application on the server. An over-enthusiastic Rails developer once made a quick site for a friend using a database and Rai...

CI::Reporter is an add-on to Test::Unit, RSpec and Cucumber that allows you to generate XML reports of your test, spec and/or feature runs. The resulting files can be read by a continuous integration system that understands Ant's JUnit report XML format, thus allowing your CI system to track test...

Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that's simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we c...

Ruby library for accessing Digital New Zealand's search API (digitalnz.org)

Small script/plugin to run a DRb/IRB server inside of your Ruby application, so you can poke around while it's running. Original code from Charles Lowe [ruby-talk:250220], I just wrapped up into a nice package, because I think this is a cool development and debugging tool. [ruby-talk:250220]: h...

Client library for the Central Authentication Service (CAS) protocol. (this version specially prepared for echologic)

Evil Dango is a small Ruby application that can extract torrent tickets from 'torrentpier'-enabled sites. It fetches a ticket with a predefined account and replaces the initial passkey with the new defined one.

An easy to use Key/Value store for any Ruby on Rails project. Like Memcache, only persistent. Stores config values & application wide state in the database in order to survive server restarts. Designed to allow you to add persistent value storage to any Rails project in about 5 minutes. Add...

Ruby client library for Episodic's Platform REST API For more information about Episodic's Platform API see {http://app.episodic.com/help/server_api}[http://app.episodic.com/help/server_api] Rdocs are located at {http://episodic.github.com/episodic-platform-ruby/doc/index.html}[http://episodic....

erbextensions is a library that extends the Standard ERB library. One key functionality that it provides is a method for programatically processing a named erb file, which is very useful when including one erb document into another erb document.

It provides basic command line tools for simply defining things like cross validations, factorial experimental design and basic statistics. All of this can be run in a distributed manner.

Facebooker is a Ruby wrapper over the Facebook[http://facebook.com] {REST API}[http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API]. Its goals are: * Idiomatic Ruby * No dependencies outside of the Ruby standard library (This is true with Rails 2.1. Previous Rails versions require the JSON gem) *...

A scraper to backup your facebook account (albums, photos, notes, users, video). Why a scraper instead of using facebook apps? Logging in as a user gives you access to more data and it's harder to block.

Checks if famous yet...

Perform fancy requiring by adding a custom object to the load path. This allows you to escape the harsh strictures directory-based lookup provided by $LOAD_PATH.

FAP is a ruby gem build on top of the excellent Nokogiri, to turn boring XML, or HTML documents into yummy ruby objects. Right now, it only support using Nokogiri's XPath selectors, and simple "relations" between a document nodes, though this will hopefully get better. FAP's ideas are loosely c...

Script to import mysqldumps (<table_name>.txt files created with option -T) with "disabled" keys (like DISABLE KEYS for MyISAM Tables)

A simple ruby interface to libxml (with hpricot-like syntax)