Working With Rails

Seamus’s open-source work: (currently all available as gems)

• loose_tight_dictionary: Use string similarity matching (loose) and regular expressions (tight) to match rows in two different tables.

• data_miner: Import and download data from XLS, ODS, CSV, XML, etc. into your ActiveRecord models. For example, you could import all of the airports in the world into your application, or you could import all 20 years of the EPA’s Fuel Economy Guide.

• remote_table: Load remote XLS/ODS/CSV files as big hashes so you can use them in your app.

• cacheable: Like ActiveSupport::Memoizable, but for caching. Uses Evan Weaver’s memcached gem (i.e. libmemcached) for speed.

• common_name: Helps you stop using chains of humanize/downcase/underscore/pluralize/to_sym/etc everywhere in your models, your views, your controllers, etc.

• ey_cloud_awareness: Make it easier to migrate to the EngineYard cloud. Combines information about instances, users, etc. from EngineYard and Amazon EC2 and provides it in a consistent interface that you can use from your scripts.

• validates_decency_of: Checks for profanity on ActiveRecord models, using George Carlin’s list of “seven dirty words.”