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A list of my favorite gems for various tasks.

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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
Scheduling: Whenever
Monitoring: God
Server: Passenger

janroesner commented Mar 4, 2011

Testing: Apirunner - nice Addition to Cucumber + Rack::Test when it comes to RESTful JSON API's
Presenting: showoff - simply great
CSS Spriting: lemonade - neat

fespinoza commented Mar 6, 2011

Views: haml, sass though compass

alex-handley commented Mar 6, 2011

So what do you guys use for auditing ?

kimyoutora commented Mar 6, 2011

@slippy
I've used acts_as_audited but it has some issues and adds new audit entres for creation even when I don't want it to

alex-handley commented Mar 9, 2011

@kimyoutora I have the same problem, looking for a new solution :)
Anyone used paper trail(https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail) for auditing ? (need to have a better look to see if it would work)

rdpoor commented Aug 23, 2012

For everything not listed here, I depend on:

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories

It does a decent job in showing which gems are actively supported and popular.