The Ruby Toolbox is a great resource for Ruby developers where they can choose from a variety of tools to get their job done.

The Ruby Toolbox gives an overview of useful tools, sorted in categories and rated by the amount of watchers and forks in the corresponding source code repository on GitHub so you can find out easily what options you have and which are the most common ones in the Ruby community.

Earlier known as ‘Bespin’ and then as ‘Skywriter’  Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is a no-compromise code editor component for the web. Ace (Ajax Cloud9 Editor) is an open source web based code editor written in JavaScript that provides clutter-free web based code editor with all the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse.

It can be easily embedded in any web page and JavaScript application.

Features

• Syntax highlighting
• Auto indentation and outdent
• Fully customizable key bindings including VI and Emacs modes
• Themes (TextMate themes can be imported)
• Search and replace with regular expressions
• Highlight matching parentheses

One of the top trends in web design is effective and creative content navigation. You can experience all types of horizontal and vertical navigation of different style in modern websites. To get started with creative navigation, today we are featuring Ascensor, which is a scrolling navigation jQuery plugin which aims to train and adapt content according to an elevator system.

Ascensor identifies div child of the selected container and also creates the needed navigation system to link to different content parts.

Features

• Make every div child a stage of the site
• Add in every div a link for the next div (true/false)
• Create a visual navigation (true/false)
• Adapt and scroll to the active content
• URL logical support

If you are planning on a data intensive product and want to avoid headache when the product would be transacting trillions of bytes, this is the right time to consider Apache Hadoop and make sure that you product would be built on a very flexible and clustered platform.

Apache Hadoop Common is an open source framework for running applications on large cluster built of commodity hardware. It provides applications both reliability and data motion by implementing a computational paradigm. Inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS), Hadoop is contributed and used by global community of developers using Java language. Yahoo!, being the largest contributor and consumer, is using Hadoop extensively. Other major users are Amazon.com, IBM, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Ning, eBay, AOL, Apple and Image Shack.

Today we are featuring a simple CSS3 based circular navigation menu by Stu Nicholls that you can use on your website or web application to provide a creative navigation menu. This lightweight CSS3 animated circular menu uses CSS3 Transforms and Transitions methods to produce animated circular icon menu with circular sub menus.

By hovering over an icon, it animate into six icons in a circular pattern. Then hover any of these icons to see a sub set of six icons animate into a circular attern around each icon.

Today, we are featuring Collin Henderson’s collection of Free jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3 scripts. Check out these smart scripts and bookmark the page as your one-stop-place for some free and really cool scripts for replacing standard radio buttons and checkboxes, for just for cool CSS3 and jQuery effects.

The jQuery and CSS scripts collection contains:

• EMSegmentedControl – A drop in replacement for standard input radio matrices
• EMSwitchBox – A drop in replacement for standard input checkboxes
• EMColourPicker – A specialized colour picker for limited colour selection
• HTML5 Matrix Code Rain – Recreating the Matrix ‘code rain’ effect using the HTML5 Canvas
• Stratus App Competition Entry – A fully CSS3 animated webpage

Sometimes you are not just ready to greet your online customers or visitors and take them to a trip of your website and showcase your products or services. You are about to launch your website and do not want the visitors to get annoyed with a blank page in the meanwhile. The quick fix for this situation is a countdown timer to tell your visitors that would be online very soon and they should come back later to check out your services or products.

If you are in a situation like this, replace your blank or old fashioned ‘Under Construction’ page with a count down timer with CountDown, which  is a free jQuery plugin to create clean, and lightweight ‘Coming Soon’ page for your under construction website.

Features

• Easy to Integrate
• Unobtrusive JavaScript
• Easily Skinable
• Multiple Instances
• onComplete Handler and Start / Stop Functionality

Polyfill is a nifty script for HTML5 progress element to display progress bar in websites or web applications. Built on simple CSS and JavaScript, Polyfill renders gracefully in Firefox 6+, Opera 11+, Chrome, and Safari 5.1 to provide a complete progress bar functionality without requiring you to code a single line.

• Accessible (WAI-ARIA-enabled)
• Supports getting all the IDL attributes defined in the specification (value, max, position, labels)
• No extra HTML elements needed and none added through script

There are 101 ready made shopping carts available online some offering cool interface, some driven by powerful database model, some offering decent payment processing options and so on. However there is nothing like a ‘hand-made’ shopping cart that meets all of your needs and has the capability of combine all those goodies (UI, database etc.) in one package.

Sounds interesting? Let’s get started with a simple drag and drop shopping cart powered with JQuery. With this simple drag-and drop shopping cart, you can provide an interactive UI for online customers and add in other features (payment processing etc.) as per your requirements.

Wakanda is an open source platform for building web based rich business applications with nothing but JavaScript. With end-to-end JavaScript implementable, Wakanda allows you to  develop and deploy professional Web applications in a unified environment using JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. You can use Wakanda to develop and deploy applications for all types of interfaces including web, mobile and tablets.

Wakanda has three distinct parts:

Wakanda Server – At the heart of Wakanda runs this faceless server providing a super-rapid datastore, an HTTP server and a home for all of your application’s business logic.

Wakanda Studio – Design your datastore classes. Create your business logic. Draw up your GUI. All visually.

Wakanda Framework – This is what makes Wakanda applications work across so many browsers and mobile devices – the framework that provides the widgets and the transactional layer with the server.