Provide arbitrary-precision floating point decimal arithmetic
BigDecimal provides similar support for very large or very accurate floating point numbers.
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Arel is a Relational Algebra for Ruby. It 1) simplifies the generation complex of SQL queries and it 2) adapts to various RDBMS systems. It is intended to be a framework framework; that is, you can build your own ORM with it, focusing on innovative object and collection modeling as opposed to database compatibility and query generation.
Ruby standard for wrapping ruby libraries
The Ruby standard for publishing and managing third party libraries provided by RubyGems.