cherry-pick

middleman

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:30:23 +0000

Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.

Middleman watches your template files (Haml, Sass, Erb, Builder, Maruku & Markaby) for changes and provides a development environment for rapid site creation and prototyping, then outputting HTML and CSS files ready for production.

RailsPanel

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:30:37 +0000

RailsPanel:

RailsPanel is a Chrome extension for Rails development that will end your tailing of development.log.

Have all information about your Rails app requests in the browser - in the Developer Tools panel. Provides insight to db/rendering/total times, parameter list, rendered views and more.

pandoc

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:30:32 +0000

pandoc:

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read markdown and Textile, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, and DocBook XML and then write to hundreds of different formats including HTML, PDF, ePub.

flatiron

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:30:31 +0000

flatiron:

flatiron is an adaptable framework for building modern web applications. It was built from the ground up for use with Javascript and Node.js.

No one agrees on frameworks. It’s difficult to get consensus on how much or how little a framework should do. Flatiron’s approach is to package simple to use yet full featured components and let developers subtract or add what they want.

hub

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:30:16 +0000

hub:

hub is a command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.

RABL

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:30:38 +0000

RABL:

RABL (Ruby API Builder Language) is a Rails and Padrino ruby templating system for generating JSON, XML, MessagePack, PList and BSON.

You can use RABL to generate JSON and XML based APIs from any ruby object. With RABL, the data typically is derived primarily from models (ORM-agnostic) and the representation of the API output is described within a view template using a simple ruby DSL. This allows you to keep your data separated from the JSON or XML you wish to output.

jQuery Waypoints

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:30:29 +0000

jQuery Waypoints:

Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.

In addition to the normal Waypoints script, extensions also exist to make common UI patterns just a little easier to implement such as Infinite Scrolling and Sticky Elements

Split

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:30:27 +0000

Split:

A rack based ab testing framework designed to work with Rails, Sinatra or any other rack based app.

Split is heavily inspired by the Abingo and Vanity rails ab testing plugins and Resque in its use of Redis.

It’s also designed to be hacker friendly, allowing for maximum customisation and extensibility.

Turbo Sprockets

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:30:29 +0000

Turbo Sprockets:

Speeds up your Rails 3 assets:precompile by only recompiling changed files, and only compiling once to generate all assets.

Turbo Sprockets improves the default behaviour of the assets:precombile rake task in Rails 3.2, speeding up asset compilation and deployments.

Rack::Offline

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:30:25 +0000

Rack::Offline:

A Rack and Rails plugin for building offline web applications.

Rack::Offline makes it easy to generate and maintain the manifest files needed to provide offline capabilities in HTML5 web application.s

ResqueMailer

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:30:37 +0000

ResqueMailer:

Rails plugin for sending asynchronous email with ActionMailer and Resque.

ResqueMailer is a plugin for Resque and Rails which allows messages prepared by ActionMailer to be delivered asynchronously by a Resque worker.

Cinch

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:30:31 +0000

Cinch:

An IRC Bot Building Framework for quickly creating IRC bots in Ruby with minimal effort.

Cinch provides a simple interface based on plugins and rules. It’s as easy as creating a plugin, defining a rule, and watching your profits flourish.

Frank

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:30:43 +0000

Frank:

Inspired by Sinatra’s simplicity and ease of use, Frank lets you build static sites using your favorite libs.

Frank has a built in development server for previewing work as you develop, an “export” command for compiling and saving your work out to static html and css, and a publish command for copying your exported pages to a server.

Frank uses Tilt, so it comes with support for Haml & Sass, LESS, Builder, ERB, and Liquid.

Slop

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:30:16 +0000

Slop:

A simple option parser with an easy to remember syntax and friendly API.

Slop makes handling arguments and options for your command line ruby gem interfaces a breeze, it even automatically generates a —help command.

whois

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:30:14 +0000

whois:

An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser.

Whois provides the ability to get WHOIS information for TLD, domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The client is smart enough to guess the best WHOIS server according to given query, send the request and return the response.

haml-coffee

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:30:23 +0000

haml-coffee:

Haml Coffee is a JavaScript templating solution that uses Haml as markup, understands inline CoffeeScript and generates a JavaScript function that renders to HTML.

It can be used in client-side JavaScript applications that are using Backbone.js, Spine.js, JavaScriptMVC, KnockoutJS and others, or on the server-side in frameworks like Express.

Snorby

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:30:39 +0000

Snorby:

Ruby On Rails Application For Network Security Monitoring.

Snorby is a ruby on rails web application for network security monitoring that interfaces with current popular intrusion detection systems (Snort, Suricata and Sagan). The basic fundamental concepts behind Snorby are simplicity, organization and power

NSRails

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:30:47 +0000

NSRails:

NSRails is a light-weight Objective-C framework that provides your classes with a high-level, ActiveResource-like API. This means CRUD and other operations on your corresponding Rails objects can be called natively via Objective-C methods.

node-github

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:30:23 +0000

node-github:

A Node.JS module, which provides an object oriented wrapper for the GitHub v3 API.

pismo

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:30:21 +0000

pismo:

Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages.

Pismo extracts machine-usable metadata from unstructured (or poorly structured) English-language HTML documents. Data that Pismo can extract include titles, feed URLs, ledes, body text, image URLs, date, and keywords.