January 25, 2010
Essential Rails Extras
A friend of mine is tackling his first serious Rails project, and asked me what gems or plugins I'd recommend.
I sat down to list out the gems I use regularly, and realised that the list was longer than I thought it would be, and that there were quite a few that I consider essential to any Rails project I start.
Without further ado, here’s the list I came up with:
Front-end Stuff
Testing
Security
I plan to write some follow-up posts talking about some of these and why I can’t live without them.
If you have others you consider essential, please post a comment below.
Where’s the journalistic disclosure in one of those recommendations? ;–)
Excellent list.
I am using Clearance rather than Authlogic, but possibly going to migrate.
I love Declarative Authorization – it is an awesome piece of code. As is Formtastic. Machinist rocks too :)
Machinist is one of the first things I install when starting a new app. I've falling in love with Devise now, too. I highly recommend checking it out as an alternative to Restful Authentication and Authlogic.