This Week's New Releases

Hijack

Hijack is an interesting piece of software. When you want to test some code with IRB, you normally have to start up IRB and use require or load to load the class into Ruby. You then have to come up with a small test case that simulates the environment in which the code will run, then issue some IRB commands to probe or manipulate the code. What Hijack does is allow you to run IRB commands on an already running Ruby program. It doesn't even interrupt the Ruby program's execution!

rbeautify 0.0.3

The rbeautify script will fix any formatting mistakes you've made in your Ruby programs. It'll indent everything correctly, and clean things up in general. It's great, especially if you're formatting someone else's code who doesn't follow such a strict whitespace discipline.