My shortlist of Ruby gems

There are always gems for anything, but sometimes there are too many gems for a thing I need, so what gems to choose. Ruby Toolbox is a nice place for that purpose, but it is not always convenience looking there.

I also do not want to remember a (long) list of frequence use gems.

Therefore, follow the criteria from this article: A Guide to Choosing the Best Gems for Your Ruby Project, I create my own shortlist of Ruby gems so when I need, I can make a quick scan through this article.

Template

• slim / slim-rails (recommend)
• haml

Pagination

• Kaminari (recommend)
• will_paginate (less active)

There are also gems that help integrating Kaminari/will_paginate with Bootstrap such as will_paginate-bootstrap, bootstrap-kaminari-views.

Authentication

• Devise most popular, comprehensive
• OmniAuth
• sorcery simple & elegant

Authorization

• CanCanCan
• Pundit (recommend)
• TheRole
• rolify

Background Jobs

• Sidekiq use Redis
• delayed_job support multiple backends
• Resque use Redis
• whenever cron jobs
• Sucker Punch

Resque Extensions

• Resque Pool
• resque-scheduler
• resque-web
• Resque-Loner

Application Servers

• Phusion Passenger
• Unicorn
• Puma (recommend when deploy on Heroku)
• Thin

Rails Admin Interfaces

• ActiveAdmin
• RailsAdmin

Search

• Ransack SQL full text search
• pg_search PostgreSQL full text search
• Algolia Search for Rails gem to integrate with Algolia cloud search
• Sunspot Solr search
• Thinking Sphinx Sphinx full text search

Elastic Search

• Searchkick
• Chewy
• Elasticsearch Ruby / lasticsearch Rails
• Waistband

Form

• Simple Form
• Formtastic
• Country Select

Development

• foreman
• Better Errors
• Rails ERD
• pry-rails
• Quiet Assets turns off Rails assets pipeline log
• Brakeman
• RuboCop
• Rails Email Preview
• rack-mini-profiler

Testing

• factory_girl / factory_girl_rails
• Faker / ffaker

Rails Configuration

• Rails Config / Config
• dotenv / firago

Cache / Data Store

• Dalli Ruby client for Memcached
• redis / redis-rails
• hiredis

Databases

SQL

• pg for PostgreSQL
• mysql2 for MySQL
• sqlite3

NoSQL

• Mongoid for MongoDB
• Cequel for Cassandra
• Dynamoid for Amazon DynamoDB

RSS

• Feedjira
• Feedbag

SNS

• Twitter
• Koala for Facebook

Upload

• CarrierWave
• PaperClip
• Dragonfly

Documents Handling

• SmarterCSV read CSV faster
• Prawn / PDFKit / Wicked PDF generate PDF documents
• to_xls-rails
• Roo read various kinds of spreadsheets Extensions: Roo:Xls / Roo::Google
• Yomu read various kinds of documents include MS Office, Open Office, Apple iWorks, rtf, pdf documents