Miscellaneous Ruby Utility Modules / News: Recent posts

This release of proc-wait3 adds the getrusage method. As of this release, the wait3, wait4, waitid, pause, sigsend and getrusage methods are all supported.

I think this package will now be put into maintenance mode unless anyone has any feature requests.

This is a package to benchmark some of the various methods within Ruby to not only help you compare the speeds of different approaches to the same problem, but to compare the speed of different versions of Ruby.

Enjoy!

I have released ptools for ruby. These are Ruby implementations of some of your favorite unix command tools (though they should work on any platform).

Currently, the following methods have been added (as File class methods): head, nl_convert, tail, touch, which and whereis.

Enjoy!

Dan

This site is designed to host a collection of modules that don't fit easily into any other category.

For now, there are two modules:

dbi-dbrc - A simple interface for database/user/login information, specifically for use with DBI. Mainly designed to provide a bit of obfuscation.

fixedtime - A module designed to return the difference in time between two fixed date-times. Originally designed for sql "date" field types, but generic enough for other uses.... read more