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# Library Fantastic

Ruby Facets is the single largest collection of core extension methods and standard library additions available for the Ruby programming language.

The philosophy of Facets can be summed up in a simple mantra, "ALL BASE COMMON". The idea being, that by sharing a broad foundation in common, that foundation can better serve the Ruby community. There are a number of advantages to this approach. Among them: name consistency, better code-reuse, collaborative improvements and reduced installation requirements.

At the heart of Facets is a collection of core extension methods. All of which can be loaded with the single call: `require 'facets'`. There are hundreds of quality methods in this collection which have been derived from years of experience of dozens of top Ruby programmers.

In addition to the core libraries, Facets provides a number of additional classes, mixins and light frameworks. These solid libraries provide a general-purpose set of components commonly useful across a variety of applications.

Facets is not the sole achievement of one person, but was made possible by the hard work of many excellent programmers. Some persons contributed code directly, other's simply had their code picked-up from another open resource. In either case, three cheeers for all!

          Thibaut Barrere         Daniel J. Berger        Paul Brannan
          Mikael Brockman         Jamis Buck              Renald Buter
          Shashank Date           Robert Feldt            Mauricio Fernandez
          Florian Frank           Hal Fulton              Michael Granger
          Florian Gross           Thomas-Ivo Heinen       Ara T. Howard
          Dave Hoover             David Hansson           Mohammad Khan
          Gavin Kistner           Richard Laugesen        Derek Lewis
          MenTaLguY               Jan Molic               George Moschovitis
          Michael Neumann         Sean O'Halpin           Tim Pease
          Jonas Pfenniger         Ryan Platte             Tyler Rick
          Christoph Rippel        Thomas Sawyer :)        Daniel Schierbeck
          Gavin Sinclair          Tilo Sloboda            Phil Tomson
          Peter Vanbroekhoven     Jim Weirich             Jeff Wood
          Austin Ziegler          Why The Lucky Stiff

Facets is true open source software! Ruby Facets is distributed under the terms of the Ruby License, just like Ruby.

Ruby Facets, Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Tiger Ops / Thomas Sawyer

Credit and additional copyrights for particular code segments are given in their respective source. All licenses are either compatible with the Ruby license or the original author has given permission for inclusion of their code under this license.

"Lots of cool stuff... There's just so much there!"
--Austin Ziegler