automatthew

Stop putting "require 'rubygems'" in your project files. Just madly require
away, assuming that whatever you need will be found in the load path.

Install dollarspots.rb early in your loadpath. It checks the pwd for a file
named .dollarspots.rb and loads it if found. Use .dollarspots.rb files locally
in projects to jigger with your loadpath such that your reckless requires
actually work.  Note that this may involve saying "require 'rubygems'".

Call ruby with -rdollarspots, or set "rdollarspots" as your RUBYOPT.  
To get TextMate's RubyMate facilities to work you'll need to edit the RUBYOPT 

automatthew

# "local" methods are those defined directly on a constant, 
# as opposed to those inherited or mixed in
class Module
  
  def local_class_methods
    self.methods.select { |m| self.method(m).owner == self }
  end
  
  def local_instance_methods
    self.instance_methods.select { |m| self.instance_method(m).owner == self }

automatthew

# first we will give Domains a little help

class Domain < String
  def subdomain( rank = 1 ) ; self.split('.')[0..(rank-1)].join('.') ; end
  def level( rank ) ; self.split('.')[(rank*-1)..-1].join('.') ; end
  def top_level ; level(1) ; end
end

# now we can treat them like strings but also access domain components naturally