quote.rb is a Ruby script which defines more than 70 quoters (basic string manipulation routines). Most quoters just add or remove backslashes at the appropriate place; others include hexdumps, checksums, simple encryptions, etc. quote.rb's main goal is to provide all quoters necessary for simple and advanced web programming (CGI and server-side scripting) in one place.
This is a simple program to read a string of text from the user. The difference between this program and the bash builtin "read" command is that this program allows you to specify text that will be initially placed into the input edit buffer. That is, you can specify "default" input text that has been "pre-typed" for the user.
regexp-engine is a regexp engine written entirely in Ruby that makes it possible to search in text with advanced search patterns. It supports Perl 5 and some Perl 6 syntax and is fairly compatible with Ruby's native regexp engine, passing almost 98% of the Rubicon tests. The implementation is simple and contains no optimizations.
The most POSIX compliant and fastest known implementation of a tar archiver.