"A repository of primary source documents and a tool for document-based investigative reporting." ...
"Ruby (Rails, Sinatra) and JavaScript. We're using Tesseract for OCR and OpenCalais for entity extraction."
TableSetter is a Ruby app that provides an easy way to present CSVs hosted locally or remotely (e.g. on google, etc) in custom HTML.
"Puppet lets you perform normal administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) on any number of systems, even if those systems are running completely different operating systems."
Several interesting points, here's two: 1) yes, Ruby is slow, but that's irrelevant since most apps are I/O bound, and most performance bottlenecks are database access. In exceptional cases, horizontal scalability (easy addition of new hardware) can make up for it. 2) "We've been also big fans of using JRuby for deployments. JRuby allows people to use the standard Java Web-App stack, which can make it much easier to deal with in many corporate settings. Mingle has also used this approach to make it easier to install for customers. Indeed the Mingle team does all its development with the MRI but deploys to JRuby. They do this because the faster startup time of the MRI makes it quicker to develop on."
A Great Set of IronRuby Tutorials To Bring C# Developers Into The Ruby Fold
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Commercial Grade Web Automation Testing offering an Opensource alternative to Quicktest and Silktest
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I spent a few months at the end of last year working on a Ruby on Rails project. While I constantly found myself longing for Python, I did appreciate the extent to which RoR carried certain best practices–among them an MVC architecture and Test-Driven Development–to an extreme, baking them into the framework.
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"Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written for Ruby. It is inspired by Apache Lucene Java project."
"Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, and Ruby (so far!)"
the Continuous Integration Automater for Rails
"Payment is used to process credit cards and electronic cash through merchant accounts."
"Simple RSS is a simple, flexible, extensible, and liberal RSS and Atom reader for Ruby. It is designed to be backwards compatible with the standard RSS parser, but will never do RSS generation."
"Cerberus is a Continuous Builder software. Cerberus could be periodically run from scheduler and check if application tests are broken. If it happens then Cerberus will send notification to developers. Cerberus perfectly works both on Windows and *nix pl
Active Merchant is a payment abstraction library sponsored by jadedPixel and written by Tobias Luetke and contributors. Its currently in production use in Shopify, the project which spawned the library. The aim is to create a rails estique payment proces