FLOSS Ruby Projects

I have been writing RubyGems since 2008, and Rails plugins since 2005.

Contributions to the community

Along the way I have contributed to many projects, including rails’ active-record (PR #20921), annotate_models (PR #473), hashie (PR #313, PR #314, PR #315, PR #316, and PR #318), git-reflow (PR #155, and PR #159), memoist (PR #33), month (PR #7), neography (PR #74 and PR #104), masonry-rails (PR #14), zues-parallel_tests (PR #28), rusen (PR #5, and PR #6), gem-release (PR #37 and PR #38), gem-dependent (PR #11), RubyGems Guides (PR #211), sidekiq-unique-jobs (PR #194), keep-a-changelog (PR #224), rchardet (PR #28), clearance (PR #769), wwtd (PR #48), capistrano-ssh-doctor (PR #11), google-drive-ruby (PR #282), subroutine (PR #4), clockwork (PR #14), ruby toolbox catalog (PR #12), amazon-awis (PR #2), and appraisal (PR #128).

Other Stuff: my Bash work→, my JavaScript work→, my Older Ruby work→

Ruby: I maintain that

oauth2→

A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol

oauth→

A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 1.0 protocol

dynamoid→

Ruby ORM for Amazon's DynamoDB

flag_shih_tzu→

Bit Fields for Active Record, (originally by XING Developers)

Ruby: I built that

RSpec Plugin Gems

rspec-pending_for→

Mark specs pending or skipped for specific Ruby engine / version combinations, e.g.

pending_for(engine: "ruby", versions: "2.0.0", reason: "just because")

rspec-block_is_expected→

Simplify testing of blocks in RSpec via, e.g.

block_is_expected.to_not raise_error

rspec-stubbed_env→

Unobtrusively stub ENV keys and values during testing, e.g.

stub_env('LANG' => 'en_US.UTF-8')

ActiveRecord Plugin Gems

activerecord-transactionable→

Properly Implement ActiveRecord Transactions, e.g.


  Car.transaction_wrapper(outside_retriable_errors: ActivRecord::RecordNotFound, outside_num_retry_attempts: 3) do |is_retry|
    is_retry ? Car.find_by!(vin: vin) : Car.create!(vin: vin)
  end

anonymous_active_record→

Faux Anonymous ActiveRecord Classes for easily testing Concerns, e.g.

AnonymousActiveRecord.generate(columns: ['name']) { include HasBalloon }

activerecord-tablefree→

TableFree ActiveRecord w/ associations and nested attributes

Resque Plugin Gems

resque-unique_at_runtime→

A resque plugin that ensures that only one job for a given queue will be running on any worker at a given time

resque-unique_by_arity→

Magic hacks which allow integration of job multiple Resque plugins providing different types of job uniqueness

Benchmarking Gems

gem_bench→

Static Gemfile analysis

react-rails-benchmark_renderer→

Static Gemfile analysis

require_bench→

Benchmark Ruby's `require` for Debugging Glory

Other Gems

sanitize_email→

An Email Condom for your Ruby Server

silent_stream→

ActiveSupport Stream Silencing - Without ActiveSupport

celluloid-io-pg-listener→

LISTEN for NOTIFY events from PostgreSQL and Asynchronously Do Something with the payload.

status_tag→

Provides content_tag_for method signature to create customizable and logic-gated labels from objects. Also includes a presenter base class to allow any Ruby web framework to create logic around HTML tags.