A thumbnailer using the dragonfly gem that caches the generated the generated thumbnails instead of regenerating them every time. Can save you a lot of time.

nanoc filter are great. But I always missed the option to do on-demand concatenation that intgrates with the filter chain

The static site compiler nanoc is an excellent tool for maintaining a blog as a developer. Here I share some handy scripts for scaffolding and sorting of blogs

How to minify and concatenate scripts and stylesheets into one big file with nanoc, and easily switch minification on or off.

Generate screenshots for a portfolio automated with a relatively simple script in nanoc

A list of my favorite ruby gems thus far.

Rails has a built in datetimepicker via a helper method that uses drop-down for the date selection. Sometimes you want something a little more elegant. jQuery only has a datepicker. I present a solution using the jQuery datepicker in comination with a time field.