Twitterize is a quick and dirty hack I did in a few hours to play with the Twitter API (seriously, there are no tests and I'm sure there is code crude enough in there to make you recant any friendship we might have). It allows you to take any number of RSS feeds and post them to one or more Twitt...

SpreadsheetAgent is a framework for creating distributed pipelines across many different servers. It is extensible, and flexible. It does not specify what goals any pipeline should be working towards, or which goals are prerequisites for other goals, but it does provide logic for easily defining ...

Lnbackup is a hardlink backup system for hard drives. Lnbackup operates in a way similar to the '--link-dest' switch in rsync. It creates incremental backups using hardlinks so that each backup seems like a full backup. Additionaly it can make (using hardlinks) bootable mirror from the latest...

Miscellaneous methods that may or may not be useful. sh:: Safely pass untrusted parameters to sh scripts. fork_and_check:: Run a block in a forked process and raise an exception if the process returns a non-zero value. do_and_exit, do_and_exit!:: Run a block. If the block does not run exit!, a...

EventMachine implements a fast, single-threaded engine for arbitrary network communications. It's extremely easy to use in Ruby. EventMachine wraps all interactions with IP sockets, allowing programs to concentrate on the implementation of network protocols. It can be used to create both network ...

This is a ruby interface to the once popular Ispell package. Please keep in mind, that every instance forks an ispell process. It was since then mostly superseeded by Aspell, but still remains quite useful. Especially it has a good support for Russian using ru-ispell dictionaries. Ispell is a fa...

Eleanor is a Ruby script and accompanying library for formatting speculative screenplays. It parses plain text written in a simple format and outputs pretty PDF that conforms to standard rules of screenplay layout. Eleanor's primary goal is to create PDF that is indistinguishable from PDF produ...

Deprecated. I'm planning to discontinue this gem. Although it has enormous flexibility and power, it is in my view too complex. 80% of requirements can be met through custom shell scripts which are much simpler to write and maintain. Sifts through your log files in real time, using ...

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 th...

This package provides a handy command to help you recover from Vim recovery files. Vim makes .swp files as you edit your files so that if an edit session crashes you can recover the latest changes you haven't saved. Unfortunately though, there's no easy way to compare a saved file with the recov...

attachment_fu is a plugin by Rick Olson (aka technoweenie http://techno-weenie.net) and is the successor to acts_as_attachment. To get a basic run-through of its capabilities, check out Mike Clark's tutorial http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu.

A Ruby implementation of go-identicon by Damian Gryski RubyIdenticon creates an identicon, similar to those created by Github. A title and key are used by siphash to calculate a hash value that is then used to create a visual identicon representation. The identicon is made by cr...

SmsSafe provides a safety net while you're developing an application that uses ActionTexter or other gems to send SMS. It keeps SMS messages from escaping into the wild. Once you've installed and configured this gem, you can rest assures that y...

ActiveInteraction manages application-specific business logic. It is an implementation of what are called service objects, interactors, or the command pattern. No matter what you call it, its built to work seamlessly with Rails.

StartAt is a simple class for future code execution. It is designed to execute a block of code at a specific point in time in the future. StartAt works by spawning a new thread, determining how long it must wait (in seconds) until the future date and time is reached, calling sleep with the exa...

zenprofiler helps answer WHAT is being called the most. spy_on helps answer WHERE those calls are being made. ZenProfiler provides a faster version of the standard library ruby profiler. It is otherwise pretty much the same as before. spy_on provides a clean way to redefine a bottleneck method so...

Base32 is one of several base 32 transfer encodings. Base32 uses a 32-character set comprising the twenty-six upper-case letters A–Z, and the digits 2–7. Base32 is primarily used to encode binary data, but Base32 is also able to encode binary text like ASCII. Base32 is a notation for encoding arb...

A simple library to assist in establishing tunneled Net::SSH connections

Wrapper libray for most popular notification libraries such as Growl, Libnotify, Notifu

Command-line client for Papertrail hosted log management service. Tails and searches app server logs and system syslog. Supports Boolean search and works with grep and pipe output (Unix).