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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

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.

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