1. Jun 26th, 2008
    Assaf's Profile — GitHub Pretty much everything I’m working on these days has source hosted on the wonderful GitHub and is only a git clone away.
  2. Jun 17th, 2008

    Ruby In Practice

    The best tool is the one that gets the job done in the most efficient and effective way possible. Many developers are discovering that the best often happens to be Ruby. As the authors of Ruby in Practice observe, by using Ruby you can impress your friends, appease your boss, get work done, have fun, go home early, and have a life.
    Ruby in Practice increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects. The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment. You’ll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format. This book won’t help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time.

    Co-authored with Jeremy McAnally and coming out later this summer.

  3. Nov 5th, 2007

    Buildr

    Buildr is a build system for Java applications. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest. But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management.

    Besides being a kick-ass build system that doesn’t force XML down on you, it’s also the first full on Ruby project at Apache. Check it out.

  4. Jul 11th, 2006

    scrAPI toolkit for Ruby

    Scraping HTML with style. A toolkit for writing scrapers using CSS selectors and a scraping DSL.
  5. Jul 3rd, 2006

    assert_select plugin for Rails

    Write functional tests using CSS selectors. (Now part of Rails)
  6. Feb 4th, 2006

    co.mments

    You post a comment on a blog. How do you know if anyone responded? You read an interesting post. How do you know when there are new comments?

    Use co.mments to bookmark posts you want to follow. It tracks new comments for you, so you don’t miss out. You can see all the new comments from your tracking page, or subscribe to the feed.

  7. Dec 26th, 2005

    WP Plugin - Advanced Wysiwyg

    A plugin for WordPress 2.0 that adds more styling options to the WYSIWYG post editor.

    The latest releases of WordPress provide the same functionality, but back then it was a killer.  A few lines of code I hacked over coffee that ended up being the no.1 post on Labnotes.

  8. Dec 2nd, 2005

    Ruby - Reliable Messaging

    Reliable messaging and persistent queues for building asynchronous applications in Ruby.