# Some new projects

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-new-projects/134980>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 16, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-new-projects/134980 "2008-04-16T19:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-new-projects/134980/1 "2008-04-16T19:26:02Z")

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I am working on [and will someday release] a couple of plugins, in case  
anybody wanted to use them before release. So this is a pre-release  
notice 🙂

1. a natural language query helper  
ex:  
School.where ‘name includes’ =\> ‘Washington’  
School.awhere ‘id in’ =\> [38,49,50]  
English is much better than SQL 🙂  
This plugin is addictive.

2. an auto-reloader, such that you can run your app in production mode  
and still change code. Ex: if a file changes, say  
app/controllers/my\_controller.rb  
changes, it will auto-reload the model given in that file. Meaning you  
can debug in production mode [very nice for slow computers!]. I’m not  
sure if rails 2.0 does this automatically or what not, but doesn’t seem  
to, whereas this plugin does. Finally speed + code changes.

Anyway if anyone’s interested email me and I’ll hook you up.  
Thanks all!  
-R

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-new-projects/134980/2 "2008-04-16T20:51:43Z")

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Roger P. wrote:

> I am working on [and will someday release] a couple of plugins, in case  
> anybody wanted to use them before release. So this is a pre-release  
> notice 🙂

A\> plugins or gems?

What if I want to use them (\>shocked gasp\<) outside Rails?

And do they all got unit tests?

–  
Phlip

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**Author:** ![rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rogerdpack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rogerdpack)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/some-new-projects/134980/3 "2008-04-16T21:11:15Z")

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> > I am working on [and will someday release] a couple of plugins, in case  
> > anybody wanted to use them before release. So this is a pre-release  
> > notice 🙂
> 
> A\> plugins or gems?  
> class reloader: no tests–it just works it’s like 10 lines of code.  
> sql simplifier: has some inline doctests.

They’re both just plain files right now. I could package them up any  
way desired. Let me know which you’d be interested in [so I’ll know if  
I should add tests before giving it out or what not].  
-R