What gems do you have to have?

[danielpclark]

Suppose downloading open source would become outlawed tomorrow. What gems would you have to download today to be happy with your tool-set?

I nominate these:

• highline
• mechanize
• nokogiri
• minitest
• minitest-reporters

[danielpclark]

I’m thinking I’d like to atleast have these as well:

• sqlite3
• activerecord

I might even go for MongoDB… even though I’m not yet a fan. And three of my most useful gems I’ve authored as well:

• basecustom
• mightystring
• poly_belongs_to

[RedFred7]

gem “sinatra”
gem “cucumber”
gem “ohm”
gem “nokogiri”
gem “json”
gem ‘rake’
gem “rerun”
gem “yard”
gem “simplecov”
gem “dover_to_calais” (with extreme bias )
gem “activerecord”
gem “sinatra-activerecord”
gem “sqlite3”
gem ‘minitest’
gem ‘minitest-emoji’
gem ‘minitest-reporters’
gem ‘rack-test’
gem ‘guard’
gem ‘guard-minitest’

[danielpclark]

How do you like ohm? I’ve never tried it.

[RedFred7]

I use it all the time. In fact, I wrote an article about it.

[AstonJ]

I have to admit I tend not to use a gem if it is simple enough to roll myself. However I do find myself using Rails Admin a lot because it just makes things so much easier - especially at the start of a project.

Nokogiri is great too!

It’s awesome how there are so many gem out there - makes Ruby the perfect language to very quickly prototype things

[danielpclark]

Aston, do you have a list? I’ve been optimizing my Raspberry Pi with the latest Ruby and must have gems for on the road. Rails is a bit overkill for the first gen RPi as the system resources don’t handle it well so it’s not on my list. I do like Rails Admin but I was unable to upgrade to Rails 4.2 because of its dependency situation (which may have changed). But I’m really curious as to any other useful gems you may know of.

[AstonJ]

Ok here’s some from my last app:

gem ‘nokogiri’
gem ‘pg’
gem ‘rails_admin’
gem ‘capistrano’
gem “mini_magick”
gem ‘carrierwave’
gem ‘activemerchant’
gem ‘nexmo’
gem ‘global_phone’

[danielpclark]

Update! The gem yt_util is a must have. If you plan to do anything with Youtube you need it. Discovered I needed it now that the Youtube v2 API is no more.

P.S. It’s my only RSpec tested gem