Career
She has played roles in films such as Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea and television series Road to Avonlea. In addition to her acting, Ruffman works on home improvement, hosting shows for West Network, Canada"s women"s network. She hosted A Repair to Remember in 1999 and 2000.
In 2000, she launched a second series, Anything I Can Do, a workshop show.
Ruffman writes a weekly home improvement column, ToolGirl, for the Toronto Star. She published a collection of her ToolGirl columns as a book, How Hard Can lieutenant Be?, in 2003.
She has a spot in a Canadian infomercial "Smartsilk" pillows.