BibTeX-Ruby is the Rubyist's Swiss Army knife for all things BibTeX. It includes a parser for all common BibTeX objects and a sophisticated name parser that tokenizes correctly formatted names. BibTeX-Ruby recognizes BibTeX string replacements, joins values containing multiple strings or variables, supports cross-references, and decodes common LaTeX formatting instructions to unicode. If you are in a hurry, it also allows for easy export/conversion to formats such as YAML, JSON, CSL, and XML (BibTeXML).