Projects

I love coding. Over the years I’ve created several open source projects, of which several are listed below. Enjoy!

MongoMapper

MongoDB is the best features of key/values stores, document databases and RDBMS in one. I fell in love with it at first contact and because there weren’t any good ActiveRecord like libraries for it, I created MongoMapper. MongoMapper is a mix of ActiveRecord and DataMapper with a MongoDB twist. It is still young, but has a lot of potential.

HTTParty

By far the most well known project I’ve worked on, HTTParty makes HTTP fun again! As you can see from this list of projects, most of them deal with consuming web services in one fashion or another. From this repeated act, I discovered some patterns, and wrapped them up into a gem. I’ve written several articles on HTTParty over the years as well.

HappyMapper

HappyMapper was purely an academic exercise. No matter what the language I’ve programmed in, XML has always been a pain. I discovered ROXML one day and decided that I loved the idea but not the implementation so I whipped the beginnings of HappyMapper together over the course of a weekend. I let it rot for a few months and then thought what the heck, packaged it up and released it.

Twitter Gem

The Twitter gem is one of the oldest projects I’ve created. It provides a simple interface to the Twitter API, supporting both HTTP authentication and OAuth. I’ve even created a simple example app and posted an article on OAuth for those that are new to it.

Crack

In an effort to get rid of dependencies in HTTParty, I pulled in the XML parsing from extlib and the JSON parsing from ActiveSupport, both of which were built off core libraries. Then one day it hit me that this functionality would be handy on its own without HTTParty, so I extracted both the parsers and named it crack.

There are several more over at Github.