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	Podcast:		Coder Catchup
	Episode:		Episode 015 - SOLO: Useful Ruby/Rails Gems
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:17:53
	Publish Date:		2015-04-20 16:45:00
	Description:		The Ruby/Rails gems that I use on a large number of projects with some high level overviews of what they are. Use my gist for reference: https://gist.github.com/jaymiejones86/7800168 Devise: The only authentication library to use (there is clearance though) Rspec: The go to for testing (although, minitest has a spec variation and its pretty awesome) Cabybara: For all the searching and finding of things with integration tests. Pg: Postgres for the DB Unicorn: My favourite app server (gotta look at Puma though, Heroku are recommending it now, lower memory usage) lograge: Keep them logs in check figaro: Useful for setting environment variables bootstrap-sass or foundation (great front-end frameworks) bourbon: Awesome mixin library simpleform: Should be a default in rails for the forms, seriously quiet assets: Make those asset notices nice and clean in dev brakeman: Make sure we are not doing anything dangerous Rails Best Practices: Helps keep things in line with the standards letter opener: Great for in dev when doing smoke tests sandi meter: Handy to see how your files are looking for maintainability and testability capistrano: The ultimate deployment gem pry-rails: A must use gem for when you need to debug bits of running code launchy: Lets you open up an HTML snapshot of wherever you are at in your code factory girl: Generate fake model data for use in your tests email spec: rspec addon to help with testing emails faker: Generates fake data to be used in your tests simplecov: Checks your test coverage shoulda matchers: Another rspec helper to match expectations better haml rails: Who wants to write lots of tags carrierwave: The go to for image uploading minimagick: The go to for image processing database cleaner: Not necessary but cleans all the things after each test run mail form: Simple email/contact forms poltergeist: (js testing within rspec) bundler-audit: Make sure theres no security bugs in gems sitemap_generator: Generates an XML sitemap and pings various search engines i18n-tasks: For checking your translations Rubocop: Keeps your code in check RubyCritic: Keeps your code in check autoprefixer-rails: Write the current spec for css properties, don’t worry about all the vendor versions virtus: Helps with creating nice form objects roadie rails: Automagically inline your css for html emails awesome_print: Makes things print pretty in IRB/Pry meta_request: for railspanel chrome extension, gives you all your requests etc new relic: visit /newrelic and see awesome stats, you don’t need a new relic account
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