Announcing: The Ruby Toolbox
by Christoph Olszowka on May.01, 2009, under rails, ruby
So, after my return from Cairo and right before heading to Las Vegas for RailsConf tomorrow morning, I have put together a little website called The Ruby Toolbox.
The page is meant to give you information on what Ruby tool from GitHub you could use to do X, Y or Z. The tools are assorted in categories like “Testing Frameworks”, “State Machines”, “Markup Processors” and so on. The projects listed in each category have scores calculated from their respective GitHub repositories’ watcher and fork counts, so you can get an idea which project is the most popular in the dev community.
I hope this will be of use to people i.e. wondering which test framework they should choose from the plethora of options or to find out about alternatives to currently used tools and their popularity.
So, head over to ruby-toolbox.com and drop me a line whether you like it, tweet me @thedeadserious or tell me right at RailsConf in Vegas!
If you want a (your?) project or another category added, please also drop me a line because the categories and projects on the page only serve as a starting point. This will hopefully grow in time!
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About
Hi, I'm Christoph Olszowka, a rubyist based in Hamburg, Germany, and this place is meant to be a writeup of nifty things I came across as well as stuff I wrote myself. Hopefully it will be of any use to anyone :)
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May 2nd, 2009 on 02:14
Now that’s a cool site, I really like it! Maybe you could add a GUI category, but I don’t know if the major libraries are on github…
May 18th, 2009 on 17:48
Awesome!
There is a category that I was missing, which is resources/restful controllers. Here is a few Github projects:
giraffesoft/resource_controller
josevalim/inherited_resources
hcatlin/make_resourceful
ianwhite/resources_controller
Regards!
May 18th, 2009 on 17:56
How about most popular rails templates?
May 18th, 2009 on 19:54
Great job. This is a great idea. One category I’d love to see is “mail fetchers” (IMAP/POP3 mail retrievers).