"Simplifies the development of single page applications in the form of CGI scripts". See also: https://github.com/rubys/wunderbar

"Like virtualenv + pip for Ruby. Installs and manages RubyGems, git repositories, and more." I hope this is exactly like virtualenv+pip because I find the rvm & bundle experience entirely sub-optimal.

I'm quite familiar w/ the Python way of handling this problem but the Ruby way confounded me momentarily.

Love the engineering team at Etsy. They continue to crank-out smart & simple infrastructure tools.

"Spittoon is a comic strip generator. It is an implementation of the Microsoft Comic Chat algorithm"

"Ruby compiler/runtime for the browser including a Cocoa inspired web application framework."

"Mustache is a logic-less templating system for HTML, config files, anything"

"Turn MySQL in to a document db!"

web-based encoding scrubber

now open source... totally missed that.

" New parallel processing worker/job queue system with a strikingly elegant architecture. The central server is an HTTP server that manages job requests, which are farmed out to a number of node HTTP servers which fork off worker processes to do the work. All communication is webhook-style JSON, and the servers are implemented in Sinatra and Thin using a tiny amount of code. The web-based monitoring interface is simply beautiful, using canvas to display graphs showing the system’s overall activity."

"MRToolkit provides a framework for building simple Map/Reduce jobs in just a few lines of code. You provide only the map and reduce logic, the framework does the rest. Or use one of the provided map or reduce tools, and write even less."

"Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written for Ruby. It is inspired by Apache Lucene Java project."

"This module provides basic functions for parsing mime-type names and matching them against a list of media-ranges."

"This is a Rails plugin that adds the ability to import social networks from sites such as Twitter and Gmail." From the Dopplr folks.

Surprise, Python & Ruby aren't that different at the end of the day.

"nanoc runs on your local computer, and not on the server. It doesn’t need to—nanoc produces static HTML files that can be uploaded to any web server."

"Stomp messaging server with file/dbm/memory/activerecord based FIFO queues, queue monitoring, and basic authentication."

Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact- list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more.

context free grammar parsing

Sam's latest hacking efforts to improve and expand Planet are quite good. Though I forgot to bookmark it a while back, Venus is Sam's less memory hungry version of Planet.