The gems I use on almost all my projects (because today is Friday... if you know what I mean)

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The gems I use on almost all my projects (because today is Friday... if you know what I mean)

• kaminari

  Great pagination gem. I like writing my custom paginators as partials instead of Ruby classes.

• rails_config

  Even if there's "rails" in the name, this gem also works with other frameworks. Essential to have a global configuration object available everywhere in your app. I like the fact that it is environment-aware.

• decent_exposure

  I use decent_exposure and/or helper methods in my controller and dislike seeing any "@" character in my controllers :p.

• haml

  I tried slim but came back to the old-and-good HAML... But I like the fact that it's still well maintained.

• state_machine

  Because it's a well maintained state machine gem, I've been using it for years and it works well with many ORMs.

• carrierwave

  IMHO, best gem for file uploads. I like writing a class for each uploader. Don't like the old approach of a giant config Hash in persistence models like in Paperclip.

• simple_form

  Because it's just form_for on steroids and because it haz Twitter Bootstrap compatibility integrated.

• jbuilder

  When I just want a custom JSON response and don't feel the need to write a full serialization Ruby class, I just throw a jbuilder view and relax.

• pry-rails

  Because it's the best for debugging. Final.

• rspec-rails

  Because because.

• factory_girl

  Tried Fabricator once but came back to FG. Well maintained, excellent doc...

• routing-filter

  It's just the best to ease the development of custom URLs. Even if I don't use it for custom URLs, I use the Paginator filter to have /users/page/2 URLs instead of the ugly /users?page=2 which is not SEO friendly.

• responders

  I use the FlashResponder so that I don't have to write flash messages everywhere in my app controllers and/or back-office.

• devise

  Of course.

• omniauth and omniauth-pipomolo

  Of course, of course!

• basic_active_model

  To write ActiveModel plain classes before Rails 4 and its ActiveModel::Model...

• pundit

  One of the cleanest and ORM-agnostic solution to write a scallable authorization system using plain Ruby classes. Never came back to cancan after this one.

• faraday and/or httparty

  When I need to access third-party APIs, I write my adapters using HTTParty or Faraday if I want to full control.

• twitter-bootstrap-rails

  My BO/admin now all use Bootstrap because it's just the best.