kaiwren

require 'net/http'
module Net
  class HTTP
    def self.enable_debug!
      raise "You don't want to do this in anything but development mode!" unless Rails.env == 'development'
      class << self
        alias_method :__new__, :new
        def new(*args, &blk)
          instance = __new__(*args, &blk)
          instance.set_debug_output($stderr)

ryanb

These are some of my (Ryan Bates) favorite gems to use for various tasks:

• JavaScript: jQuery with jquery-rails
• Pagination: Kaminari
• Testing: RSpec, Cucumber and Capybara
• Factories: Factory Girl
• Authentication: Nifty Generators and Omniauth
• Authorization: CanCan
• File Attachments: Carrierwave
• HTML/XML Parsing: Nokogiri