A list of my favorite gems for various tasks.

favorite_gems.md

These are some of my (Ryan Bates) favorite gems to use for various tasks:

• JavaScript: jQuery with jquery-rails
• Pagination: Kaminari
• Testing: RSpec, Cucumber and Capybara
• Factories: Factory Girl
• Authentication: Nifty Generators and Omniauth
• Authorization: CanCan
• File Attachments: Carrierwave
• HTML/XML Parsing: Nokogiri
• Scheduling: Whenever
• Monitoring: God
• Server: Passenger

What about you preferred Ruby version (1.9.2?)?

Yep, I use Ruby 1.9.2 mostly.

I'd also add the following for me, please add your preferred ones.

Thanks for the list!

Testing: Apirunner - nice Addition to Cucumber + Rack::Test when it comes to RESTful JSON API's
Presenting: showoff - simply great
CSS Spriting: lemonade - neat

Views: haml, sass though compass

So what do you guys use for auditing ?

@slippy
I've used acts_as_audited but it has some issues and adds new audit entres for creation even when I don't want it to

@kimyoutora I have the same problem, looking for a new solution :)
Anyone used paper trail(https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail) for auditing ? (need to have a better look to see if it would work)

For everything not listed here, I depend on:

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories

It does a decent job in showing which gems are actively supported and popular.