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Andy Maleh
  • glimmer-dsl-libui: this project won a Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Special Award after getting judged by Matz, the creator of Ruby. It is a native GUI desktop application framework for MRI CRuby.
  • glimmer-dsl-swt: a JRuby desktop development GUI framwork with support for scaffolding and native executable packaging (yes you can build a Ruby Mac native app or native Windows exe and package as PKG/DMG or MSI)
  • glimmer: build any advanced hierarchical Ruby DSL you can imagine with the tersest syntax possible
  • puts_debuggerer: improved puts debugging by automatically displaying file names and line numbers in addition to other useful information when printing debugging info
  • array_include_methods: missing methods from the Ruby Array API like include_any? and include_all?
  • rake-tui: a text-based user interface for your rake tasks in any application. Makes it quicker to filter and launch rake tasks with a few key strokes when you have many rake tasks in your app.
  • rvm-tui: a text-based user interface for enabling quick switching between RVM rubies and gemsets when you have many on your system and you want to test a project in multiple of them
  • abstract_feature_branch: feature toggling to branch by abstraction instead of literally
  • strategic: painless strategy pattern support for Ruby and Rails apps. Honors the open/closed principle in allowing you to add strategies to any objects.
  • perfect-shape: geometric algorithms for all common geometric shapes
  • easily_typable: adds "some_downcase_subclass?" methods to subclasses in a class hierarchy (e.g. vehicle.car? or vehicle.truck?) to enable quick testing of belonging to a subclass via a method instead of via is_a?
  • to_collection: enables treating a single object or an array of objects in a unified fashion as simply a collection of one or more elements
  • nested_inherited_jruby_include_pac...: makes calls to include_package in jruby include a package into the class or module hierarchy and subclasses/submodules automatically so that you do not have to repeat yourself.
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Lee Wynne

Amazing! Thanks 😎