Gems I wish I'd known about before I used them, Rails focused: foreman: for running many things at once as part of your application (eg web server, delayed job, etc) draper: model decorator pattern for Rails haml: HTML is awful, ERB makes it worse airbrake: any exception that occurs on your site gets reported to a centralised upstream (although with ab's recent issue I'm very close to switching this to exceptional) sass & bootstrap-sass: TW bootstrap is an excellent general-purpose toolkit, especially if design isn't your focus mailcatcher: daemon that intercepts & displays outgoing mail in your browser
with caveats: guard, spork & spork-rails: essential if you're doing TDD in Rails, but a real pain to set up in some cases. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Craig Read <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Being a rails newbie, I'm still discovering a lot of awesome gems that I'm > sure you lot already know and love. > > eg. > > During lunch, I implemented formtastic and rbates' nested_form in one of > my views. > That view was starting to get reasonably complex, but is now looking > significantly cleaner (about 75% less code), and I have eliminated a bunch > of javascript in the process. > > So, instead of me continuing to write a lot more code than I really need > to: > > What are the gems you feel you can't do without? > Which ones are great at drying up your code, and/or just making life > easier? > > Cheers, > > Craig. > -- > Craig Read > > @Catharz > https://github.com/Catharz > http://stackoverflow.com/users/158893/catharz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- Michael Pearson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
