My defaults for starting a rails app
gem 'formtastic'
https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic
gem 'slim-rails'
https://github.com/slim-template/slim-rails
gem 'jquery-turbolinks'
https://github.com/kossnocorp/jquery.turbolinks
gem 'bower'
rails generate bower:install
https://github.com/spagalloco/bower
Is a gem that handles logins, authentication stuff
https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery/wiki/Simple-Password-Authentication
Used for pretty URLs
gem 'friendly_id', '~> 5.0.0'
rails generate friendly_id
https://github.com/norman/friendly_id http://norman.github.io/friendly_id/
File management
gem "paperclip", "~> 3.0"
https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip
Binding.pry
gem 'pry-rails', :group => :development
https://github.com/rweng/pry-rails
Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
gem 'bluecloth', '>= 2.0.0'
http://epochwolf.com/blog/2010/01/18/using-bluecloth-20/ http://deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth
gem 'js-routes'
Gives all rails created routes in JS...