What are some of your favorite gems? What are their alternatives?
Here are a few commonly used gems I like and their alternatives
- Rails Efficient web development framework based on MVC design pattern. Alternative
- Sinatra:: Lightweight web development options
- jquery-rails:jQuery for rails.
- haml-rails: Simplify the preparation of the view layer, less troublesome duplicate labels.
- devise: User authentication plugin.
- rspec-rails:test
- seed-fu: Data initialization
- faraday: http request and html content analysis