[markbrown4]

Precompilers
sass-rails
compass-rails
coffee-rails
Testing
capybara / selenium-webdriver
cucumber / rspec
Search
thinking_sphinx
sunspot-rails
Others
delayed_job
pdfkit
paperclip / CarrierWave
omniauth
jbuilder

Oh, and a big fan of all of the acts_as_xxxxxxx gems.

[TheEmpty]

markbrown4, on 14 July 2012 - 09:00 AM, said:

Oh, and a big fan of all of the acts_as_xxxxxxx gems.

Yea, someone that likes coffeescript act_as_fu is amazing for testing! Allows me to test modules and such.

[markbrown4]

TheEmpty, on 14 July 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:

Yea, someone that likes coffeescript act_as_fu is amazing for testing! Allows me to test modules and such.

Overall, coffeescript is great
A couple of niggles that I can live with, given it removes all the the cruft and looks so much sexier.

[TheEmpty]

markbrown4, on 14 July 2012 - 09:19 AM, said:

Overall, coffeescript is great
A couple of niggles that I can live with, given it removes all the the cruft and looks so much sexier.

I hate how they removed falling switch/case statements q.q

[@Tom]

I love this thread! Whoo Coffeescript,

[markbrown4]

TheEmpty, on 14 July 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

I hate how they removed falling switch/case statements q.q

I hate how they fixed Javascript's ==. I actually like being able to compare truthy falsy values.

[gushort]

Okay two more to add:

Mechanize helps automate interaction with websites, and Nokogiri is an XML/HTML parser.

I should probably remove the "RoR" text from this threads title

[gushort]

For those wanting to delve into facebook apps: koala

[TheEmpty]

gushort, on 18 November 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

For those wanting to delve into facebook apps: koala

3rd post, ha! Found about that gem from Mo3. Used it quite a few time, but generally there are more exact libraries for what I'm doing.

[gushort]

TheEmpty, on 18 November 2012 - 03:56 PM, said:

3rd post, ha! Found about that gem from Mo3. Used it quite a few time, but generally there are more exact libraries for what I'm doing.

Oops, overlooked Mo3 inclusion in his list, well lets just say I added the link . To try and make up for that:

twilio-ruby to add some telcom/sms abilities to your apps (twilio account required, but a nice free developer one with local phone number is available).

Sequel, an alternative to active_record or datamapper.

Pony, for your SMTP/Gmail/sendmail needs.

[gushort]

Here are some Sinatra specific gems that I found quite useful:

Sinatra-subdomain - easily handle subdomains in routes

Sinatra-authentication - a good starting point for authentication in Sinatra (be sure to check the forks, as they are more up-to-date).

Sinatra-assetpack - great way to manage your static assets

[TheEmpty]

https://github.com/c...e/better_errors

[gushort]

Just a quick note for DataMapper users, it seems that if you want to use will_paginate with your DM models, you should include in your Gemfile:

gem 'will_paginate', '~> 3.0'

and then in your app/model.rb file:

require 'will_paginate'
require 'will_paginate/data_mapper'

There seem to be problems with the pre 3.0 version of the DataMapper will_paginate gem extension. By following the above, everything seems to work without a hitch.