Nathan Hopkins


I enjoy making stuff and am currently employed by 1:1





  • MicroTest - ruby's no-nonsense testing framework
  • MicroMock - a tiny mocking framework
  • Hero - simplify complex apps with process modeling
  • Coast - rest for rails controllers
  • Goldmine - pivot tables for the rubyist
  • Coin - an absurdly simple in memory object caching system
  • CoinRack - a simple rack app that provides a rest interface to coin
  • Grumpy Old Man - asserts for rspec
  • ModelProbe - introspect the schema behind your models at runtime
  • Footing - utility lib with sane monkey patching
  • Grand - mysql data archiver



  • CityDiff - compare your favorite cities