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27 Ruby Gems I use in almost every project

Rob Race on March 21, 2017

...and pretty much can't live without The Rails community thrives on its open source gems. Implementing a well written, well tested and ...

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12s12m • Jul 1 '17

Very nice list!

Here are a few extras which I use:

annotate: adds annotations to the models, I add them to the end of the file
bullet: for showing unoptimized sql queries
contracts: this is a great library to add pre assertions to your methods
administrate: for the admin
whenever: for the cron schedules

Rob Race • Jul 1 '17

That’s a solid list of suggestions there. I’ll have to check out contracts. Don’t think I have seen that before!

Philip Hallstrom • Mar 22 '17

pry-rails

Rob Race • Mar 22 '17

I'm a puts debugger :-|

Jesal Gadhia • Jul 7 '17

Related - byebug

Mac Siri • Jun 7 '17

I 2nd this.

Fernando Hamasaki • Jul 7 '17 • Edited

Useful for me: oj, redis, puma, better_errors, pry-byebug, pry-rails, pry, wannabe_bool :)

Thanks for sharing.

Thales Herbert • Jun 7 '17

Nice! I also use database_cleaner and faker on tests environment.

Samuel Raphael • Aug 29 '17

This is a very helpful list. Thanks Rob!

Menj • Mar 22 '17

Thanks :D very helpful

Burdette Lamar • Oct 18 '17

Catch errors early with Contracts:

egonschiele.github.io/contracts.ruby.

Ben Halpern • Mar 22 '17

Thanks for this. Really helpful list.

User_name • Mar 23 '17

I've been using Ruby on Rails for 5 months now, and it still amazes me the amount of Gems to choose from. Thank you, from a newbie, for listing all of these out, Rob. Appreciate it!

Lucas Marques • Mar 22 '17

I always use decent_exposure to make my controller even more lean (and not using instance variables)

Rob Race • Mar 22 '17

Interesting gem. It's a little too abstracted for my taste, but I could see it's usefulness.