shoulda-context is the context framework extracted from Shoulda. Instead of writing Ruby methods with lots_of_underscores, shoulda-context adds context, setup, and should blocks combine to produce natural test method names.

Tins is a Ruby library providing assorted tools.

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

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.

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Net::HTTP::Persistent manages persistent HTTP connections using Net::HTTP, supporting reconnection and retry according to RFC 2616.

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

Erubis is a fast implementation of embedded Ruby (eRuby) with several features such as multi-language support, auto escaping, auto trimming spaces around <% %>, a changeable embedded pattern, and Ruby on Rails support.

Bump provides commands to manage Rubygem versioning, updating to the next patch version for example.

Parallel allows you to run any code in parallel Processes (to use all CPUs) or Threads(to speedup blocking operations). It is best suited for map-reduce or e.g. parallel downloads/uploads.

Sentry-Core provides a gem that provides a client interface for the Sentry error logger.

crack provides really simple JSON and XML parsing, extracted from code in Merb and Rails.

This package provides a Jekyll plugin to generate an Atom feed of your Jekyll posts.

Capybara is an integration testing tool for rack based web applications. It simulates how a user would interact with a website.

The Stud Ruby library adds a few things missing from the standard Ruby library such as:

Stud::Try

Retry on failure, with back-off, where failure is any exception.

Stud::Pool

Generic resource pools.

Stud::Task

Tasks (threads that can return values, exceptions, etc.)

Stud.interval

Interval execution (do X every N seconds).

Stud::Buffer

Batch and flush behavior.

Bandwidth IRIS is a Ruby SDK for Bandwidth Phone Number Dashboard. It is a Ruby Client library for IRIS / BBS API.

Niceogiri provides wrappers and helpers for XML manipulation using Nokogiri.

This library contains the Ruby extension that implements Protocol Buffers functionality in Ruby.

The Ruby extension makes use of generated Ruby code that defines message and enum types in a Ruby DSL. You may write definitions in this DSL directly, but we recommend using protoc's Ruby generation support with .proto files. The build process in this directory only installs the extension; you need to install protoc (in package ruby-grpc-tools) as well to have Ruby code generation functionality.

Solargraph provides a comprehensive suite of tools for Ruby programming: intellisense, diagnostics, inline documentation, and type checking.

cliver provides a way to detect missing command-line dependencies, including versions.

Spinach is a high-level BDD framework that leverages the expressive Gherkin language to help you define executable specifications of your code.

fog is a Ruby cloud services library. This package provides shared classes and tests for fog providers and services.

This package provides a JSON implementation written in pure Ruby.

This library provides a number of PDF::Reader based tools for use in testing PDF output. Presently, the primary purpose of this tool is to support the tests found in Prawn, a pure Ruby PDF generation library.