A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.

Use any web browser or WebView as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and modern web technologies in the frontend, all in a lightweight portable library.

Fast, horizontally scalable, multiprocess pub/sub queuing server and proxy for HTTP, long-polling, Websockets and EventSource (SSE), powered by Nginx.

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)

A Redis module that provides rate limiting in Redis as a single command.

Simple evented I/O for Ruby.

Autolinking. Ruby. Yes, that's pretty much it.

Faster string escaping routines for your ruby apps

Ultra Fast Excel Writer for Ruby

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