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At Ætherical we're working on the following projects:

Warehauser

Warehauser is a data warehousing application/framework which provides a pluggable architecture for data gathering, extraction, transformation, loading, and reporting. At present it works with vmstat and ps data, providing the ability to trace a process' resource utilization throughout the process' lifetime.

Machines, Monsters, and Madness

Machines, Monsters, and Madness is an empire building game in a Steampunk setting. Initial release in Feb, 2008.

Ruby Spellchecker

This is a series of articles and classes with the goal of building a pure ruby spell checker.

Rails Plugins

We also have created a variety of plugins for the Ruby On Rails platform.

pretty_accessible_form

This is based on A List Apart: Articles: Prettier Accessible Forms and provides helper methods for building prettier accessible forms. More information can be found at http://docs.aetherical.com/plugins/pretty_accessible_form.

stylesheet_include

This plugin adds helper methods to find and include stylesheets from plugins. More information can be found at http://docs.aetherical.com/plugins/stylesheet_include.

abacus

Abacus provides more calculation/aggregation methods to ActiveRecord. More information can be found at http://docs.aetherical.com/plugins/abacus.

beautiful_figures

This plugin adds helper methods based on If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure.... More information can be found at http://docs.aetherical.com/plugins/beautiful_figure.

find_or_create

This plugin extends the ActiveRecord behaviour of find_or_create_by_COLUMN where COLUMN is the name of a model's column. It allows you to specify multiple conditions on the find_or_create. It can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/find-or-create/

acts_as_tagged_tree

This plugin maps an acts_as_taggable to an acts_as_tree, with the head of each tree being the tag. It can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/acts-as-tagged-tree