Small

Small collection of useful Ruby utilities

Classes

Math
- fibanocci(n)
- factorial(n)
String
- camelize
- dashize
- humanize
- underscore
- constantize
- encode64
- decode64
- to_sha1
- to_sha256(provider)
- to_md5
- escape
- unescape
Integer
- year, years
- month, months
- week, weeks
- day, days
- hour, hours
- minute, minutes
- second, seconds
Array
- extract_options
- sample
Hash
- stringify_keys!
- symbolize_keys!
- to_params
Time
- since(seconds)
- ago(seconds)
- advance(options)
- change(options)
- to_date
- to_datetime
- to_formatted_s(format)
- leap_year?
- weekend?
- today?
- future?
- past?
- days_in_month
- days_to_week_start(start_day)
- weekends
- business_week(start_day)
- beginning_of_business_week(start_day)
- end_of_business_week(start_day)
- beginning_of_day
- beginning_of_week(start_day)
- beginning_of_month
- beginning_of_year
- end_of_day
- end_of_week(start_day)
- end_of_month
- end_of_year
- tomorrow
- yesterday
- next_year
- last_year
- next_month
- last_month
- next_week
- last_week
Object
- blank?
- present?
- presence
- try(method, &block)
Benchmark - small DSL for Benchmark class
- benchmark(&block)
- measure(&block)
- realtime(&block)
- run(n, &block)
  
  require 'small/benchmark'
  
  benchmark do |b| b.report("test") do run 50_000 do puts "hello world" end end end

Notes: some codes extracted from ActiveSupport, but some codes are modified

Using a time command execution

Small: time ruby -r small -e 'puts Time.now.end_of_week'

2012-05-06 23:59:59 -0500

real    0m0.167s
user    0m0.113s
sys     0m0.048s

ActiveSupport: time ruby -r active_support/all -e 'puts Time.now.end_of_week'

2012-05-06 23:59:59 -0500

real    0m1.320s
user    0m1.240s
sys     0m0.074s

small is licensed under the MIT license