Tool parade scans your system for Ruby Gems and Rails plugins and uploads the result to a central server

This data is used for analysis on Rubyclub.com.ua to generate public charts of the most active plugins and gems. You have full control over how and what data is submitted

Project Home page: rubyclub.com.ua/

Why do this?

• Share your installed gems/plugins with others. Get ideas of what libraries you might want to use based on others credentials.

• Ensure that the authors of the plugin/gems get the credit they deserve.

• Gem builders / plugin authors - see how many developers use your gem, which version etc.

• Lowers the barrier for people to report what libraries they are using. It is potentially more informative than pure download stats.

• Allows the system to make intelligent recommendations of plugins you may also be interested in / alternatives. (in the future)

Usage

Run this on your development machine only. It’s always best to set it to where you develop your Rails application. Scanning for plugins may take a very long time if you have a large number projects.

Standard operation:

railstop

Help

railstop help

Setup

railstop setup

Config (views the config)

railstop config

Debug

railstop debug

Tips

Lets say you are working on a super top secret library and you don’t want this to be published. Just add it to the ignore section in your railstop.yml config (usually located in your home directory):

Example:

ignore:
 gems: my_private_gem,CVS
 plugins: my_secret_project

If you know you don’t really use a plugin / gem also feel free to use ignore list.

Limitations

Removal of a gem or plugin is not currently reflected. You need to remove it using the web based interface if desired.

This is true in the case of ignore filters if the gem/plugin to ignore has already been registered in a previous scan.

Of course just because the plugin / gem is installed on your system is doesn’t mean you are using it all the time if at all. Currently this tool doesn’t make allowances for distinguishing this matter. There is however plenty of scope to improve the algorithms and scanning techniques in place. Feel free to drop me a line with suggestions.