Best Development Tools Scripts for Daniel Berger

It also brings a Getopt::Long class for more advanced command line parsing.What is new in this release:Now works with Ruby 1.9.x. Refactored the gemspec. Gem building code is now handled by Rake tasks. Refactored the Rakefile. Added a default task,...

The differences between Pathname in the standard library and this version:It is a subclass of String (and thus, mixes in Enumerable).It has sensical to_a and root instance methods.It works on Windows and Unix.  The current implementation does not...

It uses hash tables to perform caching.If a method is called again with the same arguments, memoize will give the value from the table instead of letting the method compute the value again.If a file is provided, the results are cached to that file.What is...

This is not a wrapper for the tnsping utility, but performs two actions: attempts to ping the database using the appropriate port via TCP and attempts to make a connection using a bogus name and password, looking for error ORA-1017.What is new in this...

The methods are IO.closefrom, IO.fdwalk, IO#directio? and IO#directio=.What is new in this release:Direct IO is now supported on Darwin, and some bugs in the directio methods have been fixed. Thanks go to Genki Takiuchi for the patches. Fixed a bug in...

It modifies the Hash#[] and Hash#[]= methods so they will handle list reference and list assignment.What is new in this release:Cosmetic updates to silence Ruby 1.9.x warnings. What is new in version 1.0.9:Cosmetic updates to silence Ruby 1.9.x...

The additional features where inspired from Unix command line tools.What is new in this release:The File.binary method now always returns false for images. It is meant to detect executables, shared objects, etc. Use File.image? to detect images. Encoding...

This small tool will be very useful in implementing and generating design templates.What is new in this release:The HTML::Table constructor now accepts an optional hash of options. If present, they are treated as table attributes. Some Rakefile and...

The facade pattern is a software engineering design pattern commonly used with object-oriented programming (OOP).In fact, the library wraps singleton methods from another classes as instance methods of the currently used class.What is new in this...

It is used as a general password storage mechanism for different types of connections, e.g. ssh, ftp, etc.What is new in this release:Minor updates to the Rakefile and gemspec. What is new in version 1.1.9:Fixed an unused variable warning. Changed the way...