Government Digital Service

Libraries & Utilities

• Unicorn Herder

  python Unicorn Herder is a utility designed to assist in the use of Upstart and similar supervisors with Unicorn.

• Fake Google Analytics

  ruby Fake Google Analytics (GA) is a tool used to shorten the feedback loop when testing the interaction of a website with Google Analytics.

• Character Encoding Cleaner

  ruby This script is for fixing illegal encodings in text files. It's designed to clean up corrupt character sequences in UTF-8 files.

• Google Auth Bridge

  Google allow you to authenticate with their APIs with OAuth.

• Magna Charta

  javascript A javascript library (currently a jQuery plugin) for producing bar charts from tables.

• PassphraseEntropy

  ruby Estimate the entropy of a passphrase. Inspired by xkcd 936.

• Rack::Geo

  ruby Simple Rack middleware which processes incoming requests and adds, updates, and passes through as a Header, Geo-location information

• SBV to TTAF

  ruby Convert SBV caption files to the Timed Text Authoring Format XML schema used by the Nomensa accessible video player.

Transitioning to GOV.UK

We built a set of tools to support the transition from DirectGov, BusinessLink and a host of other websites onto GOV.UK. You can read an overview of that in No Link Left Behind and Testing The Redirections. The key chunks of code were:

• Migratorator

  Allows multiple users to create one-to-one mappings for each URL, where the mapping consists of the source URL, status (whether it will be redirected or whether, no longer representing a user need, it is now gone) and, if applicable, the page to which it will be redirected.

• Review-o-matic

  We needed to confirm that the mappings were actually correct. We wanted several people to check each mapping, so we created the Review-O-Matic.

• Side-by-side Browser (aka Review-o-matic-Explorer)

  The Side-by-side browser is a Node.js proxy that serves itself and the site being reviewed on the same domain, so that it's 'live' and not blocked by the Same-Origin policy.

• The Redirector

  The Redirector project drives the process of generating the Nginx configuration for redirection.