Cider is a fully managed development environment for open source hacking on Mac OSX. It’s powered by rvm, homebrew and chef. You only need Xcode to get started.

Cider builds everything up in ~/Developer. It won’t stomp on any of your current installations so you don’t have to commit your entire machine immediately. It’s simple to rollback if you really want to.

Ruby regular expressions library

Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall

“Integration with Google Docs is achieved via GData API. The application is developed using GWT and hosted on the Google AppEngine. A CLSI implementation provides the link to the LaTeX compiler.”

“A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 specification. This is a work in progress, being built first to solve the pragmatic process of connecting to existing OAuth 2.0 endpoints (a.k.a. Facebook) with the goal of building it up to meet the entire specification over time.”

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I’m disappointed how slowly Ruby community adopts the new Ruby 1.9. Oh wait, it’s not new at all, it’s more than a year old now! There is still significant amount of gems which aren’t 1.9-compatible, my collegueues are asking me why we should upgrade to Ruby 1.9 and for Rubinius core team has…

A Rack and Rails plugin for building offline web applications

“HTML5 provides two robust offline capabilities already implemented in popular mobile devices, such as the iPhone and Android, and on modern desktop browsers based on the Webkit and Gecko rendering engines.”

I18n routing module for Rails 2.3.x and Rails 3. Translate your routes with ease !

“WebKit2 is a new API layer for WebKit designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process from the application UI. This model is very similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients of WebKit to use it.”