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Software development tools are programs and libraries, which can help to make programs, that aid programmers, software developers, in the software development process. They may involve different software platforms, but all have prewritten code.

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• About Ruby

  http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/index-e.html
  Scripts and libraries, Pcap libpcap interface, Python embedded in Ruby, Ruby SWIG module. By Masaki Fukushima.

• AESCrypt

  http://aescrypt.sourceforge.net/
  Program to encrypt/decrypt streams of data using Rijndael and Cipher Block Feedback mode (CFB-128), for shell scripts and Ruby. Description, downloads.

• Alma

  http://harpo.free.fr/alma/
  A Language for MAcro processing, general purpose, powered by Ruby. Allows using any Ruby method in the same way one uses macros, so, immediately, Alma has thousands of built-in functions. [Open Source, GPL]

• AspectR

  http://aspectr.sourceforge.net/
  Module adds simple aspect-oriented programming concepts to Ruby; allows wrapping code around extant methods in classes, which separates different concerns into different parts of the code. [Open Source, GPL]

• BioRuby

  http://bioruby.org/
  Ruby library; goal: implement integrated environment for bioinformatics research in Ruby. Kept simple to maximize usability, efficiency for biologists as a daily tool. Begun in Japan, supported by Universities of Tokyo, Kyoto; Open Bio Foundation.

• Gemcutter

  http://gemcutter.org/
  An open source directory of gems powered by the ruby community.

• Google Data on Rails

  https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails?hl=fr
  Offers a library intending to help using Google services with the GData api format.

• Hipster's

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~hipster/
  Dozens of Ruby programs. Examples: reverse dependency tool, simple HTTP daemon, vim syntax coloring, Design by Contract, Literate Ruby, Fibonacci generators, generic XML generator.

• LoveRubyNet

  http://www.loveruby.net/
  Software Archive, many projects. Examples: Racc, LALR(1) Perser generator; TMail, Mail Class (implements MIME multipart, more); strscan, extension to scan string faster. English and Japanese versions. Ruby-dev summary index. By Minero Aoki.

• MySQL/Ruby

  http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/
  MySQL API module (extension library) for Ruby; gives same functions to Ruby programs that MySQL C API gives to C programs.

• Prawn

  http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/
  Provides a library to generate PDF documents.

• Rinn

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rinn/
  CORBA for Ruby. Goal: a pure Ruby version based on CORBA-Ruby Mapping Specification.

• Rockit

  http://rockit.sourceforge.net/
  Ruby O-o Compiler construction toolKIT; easy-to-use, written in and emits Ruby code. Current focus: 'front-end' phases of compiler construction; generates lexer and parser (more advanced than yacc's LaLr(1), grammars in Extended Backus-Naur form.

• Ruby as Glue Language

  http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~Nori/ruby/
  Ruby bindings for several libraries, programs, with readme files.

• Ruby In Steel IDE

  http://www.sapphiresteel.com/
  Provides an IDE for Visual Studio with a commercial and a free personal edition.

• Ruby.PHP

  http://ruby-php.org/
  Offers a Ruby to PHP compiler, allowing a developer to write Ruby code and compile it to be run with PHP.

• RubyInline

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyinline/
  Analog to Perl's Inline::C, allows embedding C external module code in Ruby scripts directly; code is compiled and run on the fly, as needed. [open source, MIT License]

• RubyUnit

  http://homepage1.nifty.com/markey/ruby/rubyunit/index_e.html
  Simple testing framework for Ruby. Descriptions, downloads.

• RUDL Library

  http://rudl.sourceforge.net/
  Interfaces the Simple Directmedia Library to Ruby, giving it high speed graphics, sound, and input abilities. Links to related projects. [Open source, LGPL]

• RuSTEM

  http://freecode.com/projects/rustem
  Fast Ruby module with Porter stemming algorithm; a process to remove commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English; main use is as part of term normalisation process usually done when setting up Information Retrieval systems.

• RZBD

  http://www007.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kengai/zebedee/rzbd.html
  Ruby Zebedee: 100% compatible clone (protocol, configuration file), can be used by Ruby scripts easily like standard Socket API. Zebedee is simple program to form encrypted, compressed tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data between two systems.

• YAML.rb is YAML for Ruby

  http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/doc/
  Full-featured YAML parser and emitter. Use as drop-in replacement for PStore, or use one of its several APIs to store object data in friendly and readable YAML style; write data structures in plain text.

• Yoshidam's Secret Page: Ruby

  http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html
  Information on Ruby, powered by his XML module. Modules: XMLParser, Uconv, Oracle, VFlib3, Perl, Multibyte Extension for String class, Syslog; Libraries: Unicode, Susie Plugin, DirectDraw for Ruby, MDN.

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