Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps manage, maintain, and release projects and includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility. Hoe ships with plug-ins for all the usual project tasks including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, deployment, and announcement.

RubyRC4 is a pure Ruby implementation of the RC4 algorithm.

Lumberjack is a simple logging utility that can be a drop in replacement for Logger or ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger. It provides support for automatically rolling log files even with multiple processes writing the same log file.

This package provides support for encoding and decoding binary data using a Base64 representation.

This library provides the functionality to create, modify, and delete boxes, versions, and providers on HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud.

ExecJS lets you run JavaScript code from Ruby. It automatically picks a runtime to evaluate your JavaScript program, then returns the result to you as a Ruby object.

Commander aims to be a complete solution for Ruby command-line executables. Commander bridges the gap between other terminal related libraries (OptionParser, HighLine), while providing many new features, and an elegant API.

This package provides a collection of text algorithms: Levenshtein, Soundex, Metaphone, Double Metaphone, Porter Stemming.

This Ruby library provides an experimental logging system that tries to make logging more flexible and more consumable than plain-text logging.

Wayback Machine Downloader is a command line tool for downloading websites from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (archive.org). It allows fine grained control over what to download by specifying which snapshots to consider and what files to include.

This package provides a lightweight mime type lookup toy.

Sass is a CSS extension language. It extends CSS with features that don't exist yet like variables, nesting, mixins and inheritance.

Coderay is a Ruby library that provides syntax highlighting for select languages.

MSpec is a specialized framework that is syntax-compatible with RSpec 2 for basic features. MSpec contains additional features that assist in writing specs for Ruby implementations in ruby/spec.

This RSpec plugin makes it easy to mark test cases as pending or skipped for a specific Ruby engine (e.g. MRI or JRuby) or version combinations.

This package provides a set of Hoe plugins for tighter Git integration. It provides tasks to automate release tagging and pushing and changelog generation.

This package provides an alternative implementation of the Ruby GetText library that is approximately 12x faster yet thread safe.

Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views. Think of Mustache as a replacement for your views. Instead of views consisting of ERB or HAML with random helpers and arbitrary logic, your views are broken into two parts: a Ruby class and an HTML template.

Notiffany is a Ruby wrapper library for notification libraries such as Libnotify.

This small library lets you see which property values are supported by the regular expression engine of the Ruby version you are running and can directly read out their code point ranges. In other words, it determines all supported values for \pvalue expressions and what they match.

RedCloth is a Ruby parser for the Textile markup language.

Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar archive files.

This gem provides the classes LinkHeader and LinkHeader::Link, which represent HTTP Link headers conforming to RFC 5988. Objects can be constructed from and converted to text or a JSON-friendly Array representation. They can also be used to generate corresponding HTML link elements.

This library contains some useful functionality to support the development of Ruby gems.