Let me play devil's advocate: I wish people would turn these blog posts into modules if they also find them useful. It doesn't seem fair that the person who to

Let me play devil's advocate: I wish people would turn these blog posts into modules if they also find them useful. It doesn't seem fair that the person who took the time to a) explore this problem, b) create a solution, c) describe their solution (with code) should also have to d) create a plugin/gem. Conceivably, the time they saved you could be devoted to creating the plugin and adding some polish.