# Soft Delete > In a production app, you should probably never really delete anything. [source](https://twitter.com/theebeastmaster/status/966870021099180034) A soft-delete marks a record as deleted, and keeps it in the database for historical reference. ## Installation Add this line to y...

divshare ======== Description ----------- The divshare gem makes it easier to use the Divshare API. To use it, you need to create a Divshare account and sign up for an API key. Usage ----- Here's a brief walkthrough of the basic operations (see `examples/` for more information): require ...

if/case conditionals can get really hairy in highly sophisticated business domains. Domain model inheritance can help remedy the problem, but you don't want to dump all logic variations in the same domain models. Strategy Pattern solves that problem by externalizing logic variations to separate c...

An extension to ActiveRecord to allow the duplication method to also copy associated children, with recursive support for nested of grandchildren. The behavior is controllable with a simple DSL both on your rails models and on the fly, i.e. per instance. Numerous configuration styles and preproce...

The middleware makes sure any request to specified paths would have been preflighted if it was sent by a browser. We don't want random websites to be able to execute actual GraphQL operations from a user's browser unless our CORS policy supports it. It's not good enough just to ensure that the b...

Adds simple rake commands for seeding your database. Simple dependencies let you organise your seeds. If you are using Rails, Seedbank extends Rails seeds and lets you add seeds for each environment.

minitest-hooks adds around and before_all/after_all/around_all hooks for Minitest. This allows you do things like run each suite of specs inside a database transaction, running each spec inside its own savepoint inside that transaction, which can significantly speed up testing for specs that shar...

Dependabot-Devcontainers provides support for managing dev container versioning via Dependabot.

Semantic Version utility class for parsing, storing, and comparing versions. See: http://semver.org

Bond is a small library that can be used to spy values and mock functions during tests. Spying is a replacement for writing the assertEquals in your test, which are tedious to write and even more tedious to update when your test setup or code inevitably changes. With Bond, you sep...

Hammock is a Rails plugin that eliminates redundant code in a very RESTful manner. It does this in lots in lots of different places, but in one manner: it encourages specification in place of implementation. Hammock enforces RESTful resource access by abstracting actions away from the controlle...

Ply is a ruby gem for reading Stanford PLY-format 3D model files. The PLY file format is a flexible format for storing semi-structured binary data, and is often used to stored polygonalized 3D models generated with range scanning hardware. You can find some examples of the format at the {Stanfo...

There are many software applications that aim to watch processes, and keep them alive and clean. Some of them are well known: god, monit, bluepill. All have good and bad sides. One of the bad sides is that each alternative is based on a deamon that computes data and then sleeps for a while. W...

This is a stripped-down fork of fog-azure-rm that enables Azure Blob Storage to be used with CarrierWave and Fog.

dawn is a security source code scanner for ruby powered code. It is especially designed for web applications, but it works also with general purpose ruby scripts. Dawn supports all major MVC frameworks like ruby on rails, padrino and sinatra; it provides more than 680 security checks with their o...

Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind. Homesick is sorta like rip, but for dotfiles. It uses git to clone a repository containing dotfiles, and saves them in ~/.homesick. It then allows you to symlink all the dotfiles into place with a single command....

Ascii85 provides methods to encode/decode Adobe's binary-to-text encoding of the same name.

= FFProbe - ffprobe wrapper for Ruby FFprobe is a simple multimedia streams analyzer with a command-line interface based on the FFmpeg project libraries. This is a ruby interface to that command-line program. == You will need * A working Ruby installation * A working ffprobe installation (htt...

Caxlsx_Rails provides an Caxlsx renderer so you can move all your spreadsheet code from your controller into view files. Partials are supported so you can organize any code into reusable chunks (e.g. cover sheets, common styling, etc.) You can use it with acts_as_caxlsx, placing the to_xlsx call ...

Galaaz brings the power of R to the Ruby community. Galaaz is based on TruffleRuby and FastR, GraalVM-based interpreters for Ruby and the R language for statistical computing respectively. Over the past two decades, the R language for statistical computing has emerged as the de facto standard...