trans

<table class="ages">
  <tr class="person"><td class="name">John</td><td class="age">24</td></tr>
  <tr class="person"><td class="name">Dean</td><td class="age">30</td></tr>
</table>

trans

<div class="ages">
  <div class="person"><div class="name">John</div><div class="age">24</div></div>
  <div class="person"><div class="name">Dean</div><div class="age">30</div></div>
</div>

  .ages { display: table; }
.person { display: table-row; }
  .name { display: table-cell; }
   .age { display: table-cell; }

trans

<ages>
  <person><name>John</name><age>24</age></person>
  <person><name>Dean</name><age>30</age></person>
</ages>

  ages { display: table; }
person { display: table-row; }
  name { display: table-cell; }
   age { display: table-cell; }

trans

# Turn a YAML document into an object via method_missing delegation.
# This is a pretty useless idea since you can just use OpenStruct.
#
#   OpenStruct.new(YAML.load(yaml))
#
class YAMLStruct < BasicObject

  def initialize( stream )
    @yaml = YAML::load( stream )
  end

trans

# Quickly create shadow methods, eg. #__foo__ from #foo.
# This has a very limited use case, just use alias_method instead.

class Module

  # Define a shadow alias for a method.
  #
  #   class X
  #     shadow_method( :class )
  #   end

trans

# Fixnum Constants
# Constants providing the numerical limitations of Fixnum class.
#
class Fixnum
  N_BYTES = [42].pack('i').size
  N_BITS = N_BYTES * 8
  MAX = 2 ** (N_BITS - 2) - 1
  MIN = -MAX - 1
end

trans

# This is the first reusable ruby lib I ever wrote.
# It is pretty useless now, and in hindsight not so well
# written either, but I've gist it for posterity. 

# TomsLib - Tom's Ruby Support Library
# Copyright (c) 2002 Thomas Sawyer, LGPL
#
# FetchFile
#
# For purposes of this library a url is defined as both

trans

# Binding-of-Caller, Copyright (c) 2003 Florian Gross
# (No longer works with Ruby after version 1.8+)

class Continuation; end # :nodoc: # for RDoc
  def Continuation.create(*args, &block) # :nodoc:
    cc = nil; result = callcc {|c| cc = c; block.call(cc) if block and args.empty?}
    result ||= args
    return *[cc, *result]
  end
end

trans

# EnumeratedType lets you create enumerated types like this:
#
#   class OutputType < EnumeratedType
#     AUTODETECT
#     UNKNOWN
#     NOSOUND
#     WAVWRITER
#     DSOUND
#     WINMM
#     ASIO

trans

# Gem.active?, Gem.gemspec and Gem.gempath.
# These are RubyGems extensions I created a while back.
# I'm not sure how relevant they are any longer however.
# Does RubyGems now have other means to do these?

module Gem

  def self.active?(gemname)
    @loaded_specs ||= Hash.new
    @loaded_specs.key? gemname