Ruby
Learn how to test sinatra file uploads using rack-test.
Through the mkfifo command we can create a named pipe which allows us to communicate locally between processes as if we were simply writing to a regular file descriptor.
Pomodoro is a time / task management technique aimed at short iterations, in which you take a break after each task has been completed. This Rubygem allows you to manage all your tasks via the command-line with an extremely easy to use interface
dm-pager is a pagination gem for DataMapper, providing a feature rich pagination solution for both limiting records as well as the rendered html markup.
dm-lock is a gem we designed to provide optimistic locking capabilities to DataMapper.
Simple, tiny, and efficient method for retrying a block of Ruby code several times.
Becoming proficient with Ruby requires that you have a good understanding of many aspects of the language, however I would consider iteration the foundation for most of this functionality.
Extremely simple base64 encoding and decoding.
Many of Ruby's to_* methods such as to_s, to_i, etc allow you to specify the base of which to convert to. For example base 2 is binary because its simply made up of 1s and 0s, on the other hand base 10 is decimal which is what we are all used to, and base 8 is octal, base 16 is hex, and so on.
