I'd definitely recommend spin as an alternative to spork
Iain On 16 May 2012 12:19, Michael Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
