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Do you have a Ruby gem that you'd like to write about? We love publishing your posts. Open an issue ticket or send in a pull request to get started and your article posted in the Best of Gems series on Planet Ruby.

2022

• Ruby Digital Identity & Metaverse Week 2022, September 5th to September 11st - 7 Days of Ruby (Profile Picture & Avatar Character Generation) Gems

2021

• Ruby Football Week 2021, June 11th to June 17th - 7 Days of Ruby (Sports) Gems
• Ruby Pixel Art Week 2021, April 19th to April 25th - 7 Days of Ruby (Graphics) Gems
• Ruby Open Data Week 2021, March 6th to March 12th - 7 Days of Ruby (Open Data) Gems
• Ruby Glimmer Days 2021, January 26th to January 29th - 4 Days of Ruby (Desktop) Gems
• Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to January 9th - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems

2020

• 25 Days of Ruby Gems - Ruby Advent Calendar 2020, December 1st - December 25th

Ruby Digital Identity & Metaverse Week 2022, September 5th to September 11st - 7 Days of Ruby (Profile Picture & Avatar Character Generation) Gems

Welcome. The Ruby Digital Identity & Metaverse Week 2022 presents a new Ruby profile picture / avatar character generation (graphics) library every day from September 5th to September 11st.

Have your say! Claim a free day!

Let's highlight graphics libraries for generating digital identity profile pictures or metaverse avatar characters from the Ruby universe.

Do you have a Ruby gem that you'd like to write about? We love publishing your posts. Open an issue ticket or send in a pull request to get started and your article posted in the Digital Identity & Metaverse Week series on Planet Ruby.

• Day 1 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 2 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 3 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 4 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 5 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 6 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 7 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here

Ruby Football Week 2021, June 11th to June 17th - 7 Days of Ruby (Sports) Gems

Welcome. The Ruby Football Week 2021 presents a new Ruby sports library every day from June 11th to June 17th.

Have your say! Claim a free day!

Let's join in and celebrate the beautiful game and the kick off of the European Football Championship (Euro 2020) with a week long celebration of sports gems from the Ruby universe.

Do you have a Ruby gem that you'd like to write about? All sports welcome incl. what americans in the united states call football. We love publishing your posts. Open an issue ticket or send in a pull request to get started and your article posted in the Football Week series on Planet Ruby.

• Day 1 - fifa by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  The World's Football Countries and Codes (Incl. Non-Member Countries and Irregular Codes)
• Day 2 - sportdb-models by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Football SQL Schema and ActiveRecord Models for Easy (Re)Use - Inserting the Euro 2020 Opening Match - Turkey vs Italy 0:3 (0:0) - Into the Database "by Hand"
• Day 3 - sportdb-readers by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Read the European Football Championship ("Euro") 2020 Match Schedule in the Football.TXT Format Into euro.db - A Single-File SQLite Database
• Day 4 - football-to-sqlite by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Read the European Football Championship ("Euro") 2020 Match Schedule in the Football.TXT Format Into euro.db Using the Shell / Command Line
• Day 5 - footty by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Who's Playing Today? Print Upcoming or Yesterday's Matches for the European Football Championship ("Euro") 2020 (in 2021) Using the Shell / Command Line
• Day 6 - :basketball::basketball::basketball: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 7 - :tennis::tennis::tennis: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here

Ruby Pixel Art Week 2021, April 19th to April 25th - 7 Days of Ruby (Graphics) Gems

Welcome. The Ruby Pixel Art Week 2021 presents a new Ruby graphics library every day from April 19th to April 25th.

Have your say! Claim a free day!

Let's highlight graphics libraries for pixel art in ruby (or chartreuse or magenta).

Do you have a Ruby gem that you'd like to write about? We love publishing your posts. Open an issue ticket or send in a pull request to get started and your article posted in the Pixel Art Week series on Planet Ruby.

• Day 1 - chunky_png by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Turn Pixelated Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga Portraits into True 24x24 Pixel Art
• Day 2 - pixelart by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Mint Your Own Pixel Art Images Using Any Design (In ASCII Text) In Any Colors; Incl. 2X/4X/8X Zoom For Bigger Sizes
• Day 3 - mooncats by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Generate Your Own All-25 440-MoonCats In-One Image - mooncatrescue.png Composite (2400×6120)
• Day 4 - cryptopunks by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Christie's Nine Colored in Black 'n' White, Ye Olde' Sepia Tone, Blue or Futuristic False 8-Bit Color Palette - Free Punk Downloads - Right-Click and Save Image
• Day 5 - pixelart-characters by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Generate Pixel Art Characters, Algorithmically - Case Study №1 - 8-Bit Icon Avatar Series (20x20)
• Day 6 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here
• Day 7 - :moyai::moyai::moyai: - Your gem (write-up) here - Unclaimed, You? - Yes, you can! - Your tag line here

Ruby Open Data Week 2021, March 6th to March 12th - 7 Days of Ruby (Open Data) Gems

Welcome. The Ruby Open Data Week 2021 presents a new Ruby (open data) library every day from March 6th to March 12th.

Let's join in and celebrate the (international) Open Data Day 2021 with a week long celebration of open data gems from the Ruby universe.

• Day 1 - factbook by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Turn the World Factbook into Open Structured Data (e.g JSON) - Free Intelligence on the History, People, Government, Economy, Energy, Geography, Communications, Transportation, Military 'n' Terrorism for 260+ Countries
• Day 2 - beerdb by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Serve a Guinness Irish Stout or a Bamberg Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen as JSON - Free Home Delivery
• Day 3 - sportdb by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Read in Sport (Football) Datasets in (Structured) Text Into Your SQL Database of Choice (SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc) - World Cup, English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Austrian Bundesliga and More
• Day 4 - schemadoc by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Auto-Generate Your SQL Database Schema Documentation for Tables, Columns, Symbols A-Z, Etc - Use Your Own (Static Jekyll) Themes And More
• Bonus! Day 4 - annotate by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Annotate Your ActiveRecord Models with Comments about Your Database Table Structure
• Day 5 - csvpack by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Work with Tabular Data Packages (.CSV Files w/ datapackage.json) using SQLite In-Memory (w/ ActiveRecord)
• Day 6 - worldlite by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  All the World's Countries 'n' Codes Incl. ISO (Alpha 2, Alpha 3, Num 3), FIFA, IOC, Internet Domains, Vehicle Registration Plates, 'n' More
• Day 7 - erd by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERD) for Your ActiveRecord Models

Ruby Glimmer Days 2021, January 26th to January 29th (and beyond) - 8 Days of Ruby (Desktop) Gems

Welcome. The Ruby Glimmer Days 2021 present a new Ruby (desktop) library every day from January 26th to January 29th (and beyond).

Let's highlight domain-specific languages and desktop apps utilizing widgets and two-way data binding.

• Day 1 - glimmer by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Make Desktop Apps Shine Using a Script with Two-Way Data Binding - Inside the Domain-Specific Language Engine / Construction Kit - Beware of Imitators! The Original Since 2007
• Day 2 - glimmer-dsl-swt by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Script Standard Widgets from the Eclipse Toolkit with Two-Way Data Binding (incl. Tables with Sorting, Filtering, Multi-Type Editing, and More) - Package Up and Ship Desktop Apps for Mac, Windows 'n' Linux
• Day 3 - glimmer-dsl-tk by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Script Widgets the Declarative Way (Say What, Not How) - Tk - The Best-Kept Secret and Evergreen Classic Now in v8.5 with Native Look 'n' Feel on Mac, Windows, and Linux
• Day 4 - glimmer-dsl-opal by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Script Web Widgets with Two-Way Data-Binding - Ruby <3 JavaScript - Thanks to Opal, the Ruby to JavaScript Source-to-Source Compiler
• Day 5 - glimmer_tetris by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Glimmer Tetris - The Playfield - Get Tetris Working in One Day!
• Day 6 - glimmer_tetris by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Glimmer Tetris - The Score Lane - See Your Game Progress!
• Day 7 - glimmer_tetris by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Glimmer Tetris - High Scores, Menu, & Icon - Show Others How Good You Are!
• Day 8 - glimmer-dsl-libui by {% avatar AndyObtiva size=20 %} Andy Maleh
  Script Cross-Platform Native Controls without Installing Prerequisites - Declarative DSL Syntax That Visually Maps To GUI Hierarchy - Convention over Configuration via Smart Defaults and Automation of Low-level Details

Ruby Blockchain Week 2021, January 3rd to January 9th - 7 Days of Ruby (Crypto) Gems

Welcome. The Ruby Blockchain Week 2021 presents a new Ruby (crypto) library every day from January 3rd to January 9th.

Let's celebrate the 11th birthday of the world's first genesis block - that is, the first block of a blockchain (on January 3rd, 2009) with a week long celebration of crypto gems from the Ruby universe. New to blockchain? See the Best of Crypto Books page »

All welcome from no coiners to bitcon austrian school of economics "I HODL! You HODL! We HODL! Number Go UP!" maximalists to universum (with secure ruby contract programming) is the new ethereum world computer blockchainers.

• Day 1 - compute_unit by {% avatar logicminds size=20 %} Corey Osman
  Collect Real Time Metrics 'n' Manage Compute Units (GPU, CPU, and ASICs) for Crypto Mining Rigs
• Day 2 - blockchain-lite by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Build Your Own Blockchains with Crypto Hashes. Revolutionize the World one Block at a Time!
• Day 3 - universum by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Operate the Ponzi Governmental - Real World Case Study - Last Creditor (Before Collapse) Wins the Jackpot!
• Day 4 - cryptoquotes by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  I HODL, You HODL, We HODL! - BREAKING: BITCOIN JUST BROKE $22 000! - Get Free Oracle Sayings About the New New 'In Math We Trust' Ponzi Economics
• Day 5 - elliptic by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Open Up 10,000,000,000 Accounts - Bank the Unbanked Using Elliptic Curve (EC) Cryptography and the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) - Be Your Own Bank
• Day 6 - kittyverse by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Inside the CryptoKitties 256-Bit Genome - Slice 'n' Dice Unique Bits 'n' Bytes - 48 Genes (12 Traits x 4 P, H1, H2, H3) - Build Your Own CryptoKitties Gene Reader - The Future is Meow
• Day 7 - centralbank by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Print Your Own Money / Cryptocurrency - Run Your Own Federated Central Bank Nodes on the Blockchain Peer-to-Peer over HTTP
• Bonus! Day 7 - merkletree by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Build Your Own Crypto Hash Trees - Grow Your Own Money on Trees

25 Days of Ruby Gems - Ruby Advent Calendar 2020, December 1st - December 25th

Welcome. The Ruby Advent Calendar 2020 presents a new Ruby library every day from December 1st to December 25th.

• Day 1 - local_time by {% avatar swanson size=20 %} Matt Swanson
  Cache-Friendly and Timezone Aware Timestamp Formatting
• Day 2 - elastic-enterprise-search by {% avatar picandocodigo size=20 %} Fernando Briano
  Workplace Search, App Search, and Site Search All Together
• Day 3 - blazer by {% avatar marckohlbrugge size=20 %} Marc Köhlbrugge
  Explore Your Data with SQL. Easily Create Charts and Dashboards. Business Intelligence (BI) Made Simple
• Day 4 - noticed by {% avatar excid3 size=20 %} Chris Oliver
  Send Notifications Immediately or for Later Delivery (in the Background) via Email, Slack, Text Message, Real-Time ActionCable in the Navbar or Many More Channels
• Day 5 - factory_bot by {% avatar jasonswett size=20 %} Jason Swett
  "Hey, Make Me a User with an Email and Password" - Setup Factories That Make You Fake Objects with Fake Data for Testing
• Day 6 - pay by {% avatar excid3 size=20 %} Chris Oliver
  Accept (One-Time) Payments or Subscriptions with Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) - Billing Engine on Top of Stripe, Braintree or Paddle
• Day 7 - letter_opener by {% avatar swanson size=20 %} Matt Swanson
  Let Your Browser (Automagically) Open-Up Your Email Letters for Previewing. Stop Sending Emails to Yourself for Testing
• Day 8 - acts_as_tenant by {% avatar excid3 size=20 %} Chris Oliver
  Together but Apart. House Many Tenants in One (Shared) Database. Multitenancy with Table Row-Level Database Security
• Day 9 - thegamesdb by {% avatar picandocodigo size=20 %} Fernando Briano
  Get Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda 'n' More. API Client for TheGamesDB, an Open Database for Video Game Data
• Day 10 - happy_gemfile by {% avatar MikeRogers0 size=20 %} Mike Rogers
  Stop House Keeping Your Gemfile. (Auto-)Format Your Gems Sorted from A to Z and by Groups. (Auto-)Clean up the Clutter. Happy Gemfile Day!
• Bonus! Day 10 - parslet by {% avatar rlgreen91 size=20 %} Rachel Green
  Build Your Own Language Parsers (and Lexers) with Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs)
• Day 11 - boring_generators by {% avatar abhaynikam size=20 %} Abhay Nikam
  10x Development - Speed-Up Your Coding By Automating and Generating Boring Setups
• Day 12 - matestack-ui-core by {% avatar pascalwengerter size=20 %} Pascal Wengerter
  Write Web Components in an (HTML) Domain-Specific (Mini) Language (DSL) Getting (Automagically) Turned Into Modern (Reactive) Web Views on Top of Vue.js
• Day 13 - lumione by {% avatar ledestin size=20 %} Dmitry Maksyoma
  Money. Money. Money. Convert NZD ($) to USD ($) or EUR (€) to JPY (¥) in Your Terminal using the European Central Bank (ECB) Reference Exchange Rates. No API Key Required. Yes, Works Offline
• Day 14 - que-scheduler by {% avatar hlascelles size=20 %} Harry Lascelles
  Light-Weight (Time-Driven) Cron (Background) Job Scheduler for Que - a Job Queue Using the PostgreSQL Database with Advisory Locks for Speed and Reliability
• Day 15 - avo by {% avatar adrianthedev size=20 %} Adrian Marin
  (Auto-)Build Beautiful Admin Dashboards and Panels for Your Active Record (Database) Models (Incl. File Attachments) with Configuration in Code
• Day 16 - bridgetown by {% avatar pascalwengerter size=20 %} Pascal Wengerter
  Build Websites (and Apps) the Classic (Static) Compiler Way - Use the Latest JavaScript (Yes, Webpack Out-of-the-Box) or CSS Packages - Fast and Secure By Default
• Day 17 - any_login by {% avatar igorkasyanchuk size=20 %} Igor Kasyanchuk
  Speed Up Testing Allowing One-Click Turbologins® Without Passwords as Any User in the System. Switching User (Accounts) Made Easy (and Faster)
• Day 18 - dentaku by {% avatar jankeesvw size=20 %} Jankees van Woezik
  Parse and Evaluate Math (and Logical Formulas) with a Calculator in a Sandbox, Safely
• Bonus! Day 18 - henkei by {% avatar swanson size=20 %} Matt Swanson
  Read Text and Meta Data from Word, PowerPoint, and PDF Files
• Day 19 - quik by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Quick Starter Template Script Wizard - The Missing Code Generator and Project Scaffolder for Gems, Sinatra, Jekyll 'n' More
• Day 20 - lhs and lhc by {% avatar marcoroth size=20 %} Marco Roth
  Easy Active Record-Like Interfaces for Accessing HTTP JSON APIs - Smarter Higher-Level HTTP Service and Lower-Level HTTP Client
• Day 21 - super_diff by {% avatar mcmire size=20 %} Elliot Winkler
  A More Helpful Way to View Differences Between Complex Data Structures in Test Spec(ification)s
• Bonus! Day 21 - addressable by {% avatar soulcutter size=20 %} Bradley Schaefer
  The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Class that Should be Standard (Incl. Templates 'n' More)
• Day 22 - active_record-events by {% avatar pienkowb size=20 %} Bartosz Pieńkowski
  Complete? Record Your Own Timestamps in Active Record Models with has_event Macro, Automagically
• Day 23 - json-next by {% avatar geraldb size=20 %} Gerald Bauer
  Read Next Generation JSON Versions (HanSON, SON, JSONX/JSON11, Etc) with Comments, Unquoted Keys, Multi-Line Strings, Trailing Commas, Optional Commas, and More
• Day 24 - git_reflow by {% avatar codenamev size=20 %} Valentino Stoll
  Automate Your Git Workflow for You and Your Team. Build Your Own Git (Command Line) Commands
• Day 25 - hexapdf by {% avatar gettalong size=20 %} Thomas Leitner
  Read and Write PDF Documents. Start from Zero or Merge, Extract, Optimize and Much More

Archive

Ruby Gem of the Week Series

Welcome. The Ruby Gem of the Week series presents a new Ruby library every week on Thursday. Have your say!

• Week 1 - hoe - build, package and publish gems with hoe rake tasks
• Week 2 - slideshow - a free web alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote in Ruby
• Week 3 - kramdown - turn easy-to-read and easy-to-write wiki-style plain text in markdown into hypertext
• Week 4 - feedparser - web feed parser and normalizers (for RSS 2.0, Atom, n friends)
• Week 5 - gli - git-like interfaces for awesome command-line tools
• Week 6 - state_machine(s) - model processes and work flows with finite state machines (FSM) and automata theory
• Week 7 - logutils - yet another (lightweight, simple) logging library in Ruby
• Week 8 - props - yet another config (INI) reader in Ruby
• Week 9 - html-proofer - auto-proofread (check and validate) your hypertext (HTML) pages
• Week 10 - tilt - let's build (yet another) micro web framework in less than 33 lines of code
• Week 11 - journaltxt - Blogging reinvented: Read Journal.TXT - single-text file journals - and write out (auto-build) a blog (w/ Jekyll posts etc.)
• Week 12 - almost-sinatra - Build your own webframework from scratch with Rack and Tilt in less than ten lines; six lines of Almost Sinatra "unobfuscated" and bundled up for easy (re)use
• Week 13 - webservice - Script HTTP JSON APIs (web services) in classy Sinatra 2.0-style get / post methods with Mustermann 1.0 route / url pattern matching; load (micro) web services at-runtime and more
• Week 14 - feedtxt - Read Feed.TXT - feeds in text (unicode); publish & share posts, articles, podcasts, 'n' more
• Week 15 - jekyll-octopod - Publish your own radio talk shows; podcast extension for building (static) websites with Jekyll; incl. podcast web feeds with RSS enclosures and JSON Feed attachments in the OGG, MP3 or M4A audio formats. Written by Stefan Haslinger {% avatar haslinger size=20 %}
• Week 16 - pluto - Auto-build web pages from published web feeds; planet (static) website generator
• Week 17 - eventdb - Build your own What's On / What's Up event calendar from READMEs in (structured) text; read in (awesome) ruby conferences from around the world
• Week 18 - officetxt - Write notes, articles, journals, presentations, websites, blogs, manuscripts, books & more; the free writer's command line tool suite works w/ any text editor; uses future-proof text formats