Ruby is available on all accounts.
Bellow a list of server-wide libraries ready to use. Additional
to all the standard modules. Ruby itself is updated regularly.
Users can install any libraries locally without asking.
All accounts are
fully accessible with SSH, FTP, SFTP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP.
If you need a library or module, just ask a support engineer to add it to the list below.
Strscan
Fast string lexical scanner library.
Amrita
An html/xhtml template library for Ruby. It makes html documents from a template and model data.
Ruby mysql
mysql interfacing from ruby. handy with your databases.
Ruby postgres
Extension library to access a
PostgreSQL database from Ruby.
Ruby/DBI
A database independent interface for accessing databases - similar to Perl's DBI.
With the following drivers: DBD/Pg, DBD/Mysql,
DBD/proxy, DBD/sqlrelay, DBD/ODBC.
Other drivers are possible.
mod_ruby
Direct apache web server interface and accelerator.
default extension filename: .rbx .
You can have mod_ruby apache directive for your sites,
and have auto-reload enabled.
eruby
Ruby embeded in html, a popular extension to mod_ruby.
handles .rhtml files.
RAA - druby
Distributed ruby. DRb can send message to other ruby script that like Java's RMI.
RAA - ruby-rss
parsing lib for creating, downloading, and caching RSS
XML Parser
An interface for James Clark's expat xml library.
RAA - uconv
A code conversion library for UCS-4, UTF-16, UTF-8,
EUC-JP and CP932.
HTML/Template
templating system
HTML/FillinForm
html forms
CGI_Application
cgiapp from moonwolf
tk.rb
to make Tk/X11 based ruby apps
ruby-pcap
interface to LBL Packet Capture library.
includes classes to access packet header fields.
Ruby is a powerfull pure object oriented language, with a flexible syntax.
Its popularity is growing and Rootroute promotes its use and abuse...
,
from the man page.