Better jobs. Good jobs.

ActionController is great, but could be better. Here are some tweaks for it.

ActiveRecord integration with the MusicBrainz database

active-fixtures provides the way how to populate the server state (DB, sessions) as an application user but not as programmer.

Batch up your ActiveRecord "touch" operations for better performance. All accumulated "touch" calls will be consolidated into as few database round trips as possible.

A utility to bulk load test data for performance testing.

Instead of a many-to-many join table, serialize the ids into a JSON array.

Store settings in your relational database as a simple key value store. Can be used as a low performance cache if you want to store some things, and either want them reliably persisted past a cache server restart, or you just don't want a full cache.

ActiveRecord is great, but could be better. Here are some tweaks for it.

Batch updating for ActiveRecord models

A Rails Engine using ActiveRecord to cache results of HTTP scrapes

This gem provides 'TOD*', 'F*XME' and 'XX*' as methods you can use in code

A partial mongoid implementation of tagging based on/inspired by acts-as-taggable-on.

A client for using api.acuitydata.co.za API in Ruby. This is an unofficial project.

The Circuit Breaker pattern is used to prevent constant fail-over from spotty remote systems

Postgres adapter for adapter gem. Uses the HSTORE data type. See adapter for more info.

Gem for adding advanced features into ActiveRecord

Monitoring UI for Æternitas

An ETL for retrieving records from the Affiliate Window APIand loading them into a Postgres database.

Ruby client for the Afterbanks' API