Giving back to the community
Ruby on Rails applications can in part be composed from pre-made software components called gems. We use gems in every project to finish mundane tasks quickly and concentrate on the task at hand. This saves us time and you money.
Aside from our own gems which you can find below, we love RSpec and Cucumber for test-driven development, Capistrano for automated deployments and Haml as an alternate markup language. Thank you guys for your wonderful work!
We try to give back to the community by publishing our own set of useful gems on GitHub:
Aegis
Released on May 28th, 2009
Aegis is an authorization solution for Rails that supports roles and a RESTish, resource-style declaration of permission rules.
Modularity
Released on February 13th, 2010
Modularity provides traits and partial classes for Ruby, allowing very simple definitions of meta-programming macros.
Cucumber Factory
Released on September 7th, 2009
Create ActiveRecord objects directly from your Cucumber features. No step definitions required.
CucumberSpinner
Released on July 28th, 2010
A formatter for Cucumber that shows a progress bar for the running features and immediately outputs failing features.
Geordi
Released on May 26th, 2011
Geordi is a power collection of command line tools we use in our daily work with Ruby, Rails and Linux.
Pollyanna
Released on February 13th, 2010
Pollyanna adds a very simple full text search to your ActiveRecord models. Great for search-as-you-type boxes.
Apify
Released on August 29th, 2010
Bolt a JSON API onto your Rails application. Can auto-generate API documentation and validate requests with JSON Schema.
Consul
Released on April 12th, 2011
Consul is a authorization solution for Ruby on Rails that uses scopes to control what a user can see or edit.
Query Diet
Released on June 23rd, 2010
Query Diet counts the number of database queries for the last request and subtly displays it in the upper right corner of your screen.
Machinist Callbacks
Released on June 23rd, 2010
This gem provides callbacks for machinist blueprints, enabling more freedom in your construction rules.
Mail Magnet
Released on July 23rd, 2010
Mail Magnet allows you to override e-mail recipients in ActionMailer so all mails go to a given address.