Introducing RubyHelpers
I am pleased to announce RubyHelpers gem.
When building lightweight Ruby apps in Sinatra and the like, I often need some extra functionality that Ruby doesn’t have baked in. I end up repeating snippets of code hear and there. I thought I’d bundle it in a gem for my own use and contribute it to the Ruby community.
I have extended Object to include the blank? similar to that found in Rails. For example “”.blank?, nil.blank?, {}.blank?, [].blank? etc
I have extended String to have to_html to use RedCloth to convert textile to (X)HTML. For example “h1. *Hello World*”.to_html would produce “<h1><strong>Hello World</strong></h1>”
I have extended Hash to have dot notation to access values via keys and to have {key}_exists? method too. For example person.first_name instead of person[“first_name”], person.phone_numbers.office person.phone_numbers.mobile_exists?
The Hash extension is really handy after parsing a JSON object. It feels so much nicer to access values via dot notation.
So start using it in your projects:
sudo gem install rubyhelpers
Check out the docs and contribute other RubyHelpers on good old GitHub.
Introducing Revver4R
Here is my first RubyGem and Rails Plugin, Revver4R. A simple Ruby way of grabbing videos from Revver. Check it out on my github account.
Enjoy Revver for Ruby!
P.S. It’s realised under the MIT license
