Katas are well known in the ruby community as a great way to practice the language. The kata gem provides facilities to make the practice easier. Writing a kata is as easy as writing an rspec test while taking it is a step by step process with github integration baked in. With this release kata supports other languages besides ruby and it commits to your git repo after completing a requirement during a practice session. Check it out and have a look at the code katas project for some samples to test yourself against!