"It all boils down to a Ruby script that runs on OS X only and uses OS X’s really awesome typography and subpixel antialiased font rendering. Why not tap into this to make those headline graphics? With Rubycocoa you can easily whip up a small app that draws some text, and save it into a PNG file."

"Bloopsaphone is a Ruby library for making 8-bit music and sound effects. _why intends it to be used by the kids to enhance their video games and what not."

gcharts in your ruby face

benchmark yoself in IRB

geo-locate gemy gem

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/ (you only need to do this once)

nice RubyCocoa tutorial, with rspec leading the way

"Appscript is a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications from Python, Ruby and Objective-C."

"Dead simple IM notifications for your app!" Currently Jabber only.

BDD, TDD, ODD. OPP?

r-s-p-e-c-t

@pivotal labs

rails and popular gem docs

"RubySMS is a simple but effective SMSController class, which is meant to be an SMS extension to any possible Ruby application."

"Instant search in HTML and other developer documentation"

"This is the MySQL Ruby API written by Ruby." Duh.

last.fm ruby gem!