Tag Archives: gems

Managing Cron Jobs – Without Steroids

There’s a funky RubyGem available over on Rubyforge for managing your systems cron jobs.  When I first started to read about it I got confused because it says you add a cron job for the jobmanager which then runs your cron jobs. Madness…not quite. This jobmanager thingy actually provides a great set of tools that [...]

Best Gem Author Name: Mike Mondragon

Just yesterday I was reading about Dracula, Romanian language, Vlad the Impaler, Transylvania, etc.  As you do of a Sunday evening. Then by sheer coincidence I come across Mike Mondragon who is the maintainer of MMS2R – a mobile phone MMS library for Ruby. Mike Mondragon – clearly the best name on RubyForge. I salute [...]

New gem released – Newgem

I’ve no idea what this is but its a rubbish name and a new release has been made.  I think it has something to do with GEMS?  Never mind. Go them: http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=27856 Oh – I think its 0.2.9.

Latest Ruby WWW::Mechanize Released (0.7.8)

For those not knowing what I’m on about: Mechanize is a stunning little library which is great for automating web navigation and is especially suited to handling forms. The latest version addresses a couple of bugs and is available here: Mechanize.

Vimrecover – Nice Gem

Its easy to forget some of the best discoveries are made simply by browsing RubyForge.  This is now exception.  Its a nice little Ruby Gem to help Vim users to compare and manage their swp files.  These are produced as you’re editing a file and so if the session dies or there’s a crash then [...]