full on authorisation:
gem 'devise'
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used for invitation based devise stuff, works with devise:
gem 'devise_invitable'
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Use alternative (and even your own!) encryptors with Devise.
gem 'devise-encryptable'
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Rails authentication with email & password.
gem 'clearance'
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general authentication:
gem 'authlogic'
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multiple authentication methods:
gem 'omniauth'
gem 'omniauth-facebook'
gem 'omniauth-twitter'
gem 'omniauth-google'
Taint and required checking for Action Pack and enforcement in Active Model (should be in Rails 4 Core):
gem 'strong_parameters'
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Ruby gem for interacting with the AlterEgo API:
gem 'alterego'
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used for multi-tenancy application work, eg basecamp style, multi users one account.:
gem 'acts_as_tenant'
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Database multi-tenancy for Rack (and Rails) applications: Apartment provides tools to help you deal with multiple databases in your Rails application. If you need to have certain data sequestered based on account or company, but still allow some data to exist in a common database, Apartment can help. Uses schemas in Postgres, WEWT!
gem 'apartment'
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easier oauth functionality:
gem 'open_auth2'
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A production ready Rails Engine that turns your app into an Oauth2 Provider:
gem 'opro'
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Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actionshttps://github.com/archiloque/rest-client:
gem 'rest-client'
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HMAC authentication client for Rails and ActiveResource:
gem 'api-auth'
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Very simple Roles library without any authorization enforcement supporting scope on resource object. This library was intended to be used with CanCan and devise but should be generic enough to be used by any other authentication/authorization solutions:
gem 'rolify'
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Continuation of CanCan, the authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.:
gem 'cancancan'
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Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes:
gem 'pundit'
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encryption:
gem 'bcrypt-ruby', :require => 'bcrypt'
Generates attr_accessors that encrypt and decrypt attributes:
gem 'attr_encrypted'
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used for making searchable multiselect with tags and searching. Not a gem better for searching lots of records, it uses ajax calls find at jquery-token. Put into vendor > assets > javascripts folder. Then load via asset pipline... see Railscasts 258-token-fields-revised for example:
gem 'chosen-rails'
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add jquery autocomplete:
gem 'rails3-jquery-autocomplete'
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Rails gem for handling keyboard shortcuts via mousetrap javascript library:
gem 'mousetrap-rails'
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ajaxify stuff - also add jquery-pjax:
gem 'rack-pjax'
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Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster. Instead of letting the browser recompile the JavaScript and CSS between each page change, it keeps the current page instance alive and replaces only the body and the title in the head. Think CGI vs persistent process:
gem 'turbolinks'
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Wiselinks makes following links and submitting some forms in your web application smarter and faster (this is really rad):
gem 'wiselinks'
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adds your ruby variables in your JS:
gem 'gon'
used for imagemagick manipulations:
gem 'rmagick'
A ruby ImageMagick library that doesn't suck.(it is rad):
gem 'image_sorcery'
used for image uploads, eg avatars, etc - a gentle introduction to carrierwave :
gem 'carrierwave'
Process your uploads in the background by uploading directly to S3:
gem 'carrierwave_direct'
used for image uploads:
gem 'paperclip'
Automatic Retina Image Handling for Rails 3.1+:
gem 'clear_eyes'
Quickly check your database info while working with Rails in development
gem 'rails_db_info'
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Manage translations in ruby applications with the awesome power of static analysis
gem 'i18n-tasks'
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Pry-based enhancements for the default Rails 3 and 4 consoles
gem 'jazz_hands'
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Rack middleware for blocking & throttling
gem 'rack-attack'
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Patch-level verification for Bundler
gem 'phil'
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Content generation module that wraps around Faker.
gem 'bundler-audit'
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Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications
gem 'rails-erd'
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Errors, more of them, and better. For sprockets, specifically sprockets-rails. The goal of this library is to make it painfully obvious when you've done something wrong with the rails asset pipeline. So you dont forget to include STUFF!!!
gem 'sprockets_better_errors'
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Rack middleware for serving static gzipped assets generated by the Rails asset pipeline
gem 'rack-zippy'
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An extensible open-source mobile backend framework
gem 'helios'
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A development tool that reveals your UI's bones
gem 'xray-rails'
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Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity
gem 'public_activity'
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Security related headers all in one gem
gem 'secure-headers'
Send and retrieve your ruby i18n localizations to the Locale translation service
gem 'localeapp'
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Don't use 3rd party services to track your app errors. Use Github!
gem 'party_foul'
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Inkwell adds social networking features – comments, reblogs, favorites, ability to follow other people and view their timeline
gem 'inkwell', :git => 'git://github.com/salkar/inkwell.git'
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Library for dealing with money and currency conversion
gem 'money'
Simple Rails app configuration
gem 'figaro'
Loads environment variables from .env.
gem 'dotenv-rails', :groups => [:development, :test]
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Whitelist-based Ruby HTML sanitizer
gem 'sanitize'
Better error page for Rails and other Rack apps (for development only)
gem 'better_errors'
An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything
gem 'lograge'
Engine Yard Local (Local Engine Yard Using VirtualBox)
gem 'engineyard-local'
Makes http fun again!:
gem 'httparty'
Every Rails page has footnotes that gives information about your application and links back to your editor:
gem 'rails-footnotes'
Nice profiling of application see http://railscasts.com/episodes/368-miniprofiler for more info:
gem 'rack-mini-profiler'
Seedbank allows you to structure your Rails seed data instead of having it all dumped into one large file. I find my seed data tended to fall into two categories. 1. Stuff that the entire application requires. 2. Stuff to populate my development and staging environments.:
gem 'seedbank'
Easily include static pages in your Rails app:
gem 'high_voltage'
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A tagging plugin for Rails applications that allows for custom tagging along dynamic contexts:
gem 'acts-as-taggable-on'
A Rails plugin gem for filtering out profanity:
gem 'profanity_filter'
The ActiveRecord acts_as_commentable plugin:
gem 'acts_as_commentable'
Extension for Delayed Job to only run workers when needed on Heroku:
gem 'workless'
HireFire automatically "hires" and "fires" (aka "scales") Delayed Job and Resque workers on Herokuhttp://hirefireapp.com/:
gem 'hirefire'
An ActiveModel validator that validates associated models, copying any errors from composed models up to their parent:
gem 'also_validates'
An IRB alternative and runtime developer console:
gem 'pry'
Connect to Pry remotely (for use with things like POW):
gem 'pry-remote'
A Ruby gem for communicating with the Twilio API and generating TwiML (SMS):
gem 'twilio-ruby'
handles events, like calling external apis etc:
gem 'eventmachine'
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Rails:
gem 'doorkeeper'
used for interacting with the cloud:
gem 'fog'
used for restful api creation:
gem 'grape'
General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support:
gem 'rabl'
used for backup:
gem 'backup'
A means of automating Heroku's pgbackups and archiving them to Amazon S3 via the fog gem
gem 'pgbackups-archive'
render custom json templates:
gem 'jbuilder'
The Exception Notifier plugin provides a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application.:
gem 'exception_notification'
background job creation:
gem 'resque'
Love Resque? Hate Boilerplate? Use resque_def!:
gem 'resque_def'
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Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing using Celluloid, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday:
gem 'sucker_punch'
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gem 'delayed_job_active_record'
A Rails engine based frontend for Delayed Job. It also has an iPhone app:
gem 'dj_mon'
A gem providing "time travel", "time freezing", and "time acceleration" capabilities, making it dead simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.:
gem 'timecop'
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runs multiple tasks at once for convenience:
gem 'foreman'
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Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications:
gem 'guard'
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Guard::LiveReload automatically reload your browser when 'view' files are modified.:
gem 'guard-livereload'
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Guard gem for generating ctags for project files and gems from project's bundle.:
gem 'guard-ctags-bundler'
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Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration:
gem 'browser'
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used for scheduling things to run, like cron:
gem 'whenever'
Simple, efficient message processing for Ruby: Sidekiq uses threads to handle many messages at the same time in the same process. It integrates tightly with Rails 3 to make background message processing dead simple.
gem 'sidekiq'
Chronic is a pure Ruby natural language date parser:
gem 'chronic'
Date and time formatting for humans:
gem 'stamp'
versioning:
gem 'paper_trail'
Track model actions:
gem 'hound'
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used for maintenance mode of sites:
gem 'turnout'
need to install redis on mac:
gem 'redis'
used for pretty urls:
gem 'friendly_id'
Simple slug functionality for your ActiveRecord objects:
gem 'slugworth'
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used for better design patterns see Railscasts Draper :
gem 'draper'
used for making a wizard eg installer:
gem 'wicked'
Simple Ruby wrapper for the GitHub v2 & v3 API:
gem 'octokit'
Helps you find your routes on a long Journey on Rails. Visit http://localhost:3000/rails/routes:
gem 'sextant'
The Active Record Reputation System helps you discover more about your application and make better decisions. The Reputation System gem makes it easy to integrate reputation systems into Rails applications, decouple the system from the main application and provide guidelines for good design of reputation systems:
gem 'activerecord-reputation-system', :require => 'reputation_system'
Keep model fields commented in your rails apps:
gem 'annotator'
New Relic RPM Agent:
gem 'newrelic_rpm'
Bullet: A rails plugin/gem to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading
gem 'bullet', :group => 'development'
Search:
gem 'ransack'
Object-based searching (and more) for simply creating search forms:
gem 'meta_search'
roll out particular features:
gem 'rollout'
A slick way to rollout features in your web app:
gem 'rollout_ui'
degrade features if failing or something like that:
gem 'degrade'
mountable blog engine:
gem 'monologue'
refinery cms:
gem 'refinerycms'
Edit copy in your live web app (requires copycopter-server:
gem 'copycopter_client'
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Incoming! helps you receive email in your Rack apps.
gem 'incoming'
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A Rails engine that provides an endpoint for Sendgrid and sends the email to a specified class for processing
gem 'griddler'
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Forward mail from gmail IMAP to a callback URL, simply
gem 'mail_room'
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Preview mail in the browser instead of sending
gem 'letter_opener', :group => :development
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used for viewing emails instead of sending tests:
gem 'mail_view'
Catches mail and serves it through a dream:
gem 'mailcatcher'
Type mailcatcher to launch Go to http://localhost:1080/ Send mail through smtp://localhost:1025
auto inline styles for emails:
gem 'roadie'
**An incoming mail processing microframework in Ruby: **
gem 'mailman'
Write your ActionMailer email templates in Markdown, send in html and plain text
gem 'maildown'
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The redactor-rails gem integrates the Redactor editor with the Rails 3.2 asset pipeline.
gem 'redactor-rails'
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asset pipeline based ckeditor:
gem 'ckeditor_rails', :require => 'ckeditor-rails'
ckeditor:
gem 'ckeditor', '3.7.1'
used for WYSIWYG editor:
gem 'tiny_mce'
Rails generator to build a styleguide
gem 'styleguide_rails'
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Entity-style text parsing extracted from Cheddar
gem 'quesadilla'
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Garlic.js in love with Rails Asset Pipeline(saves forms):
gem 'garlicjs-rails'
Speeds up your Rails 3 assets:precompile by only recompiling changed files, and only compiling once to generate all assets:
gem 'turbo-sprockets-rails3'
admin interface:
gem 'activeadmin'
admin interface:
gem 'rails_admin', :git => 'git://github.com/sferik/rails_admin.git'
adds auto haml support:
gem 'haml-rails'
adds better form stuff:
gem 'simple_form'
Rails jQuery file uploads via standard Rails "remote: true" forms:
gem 'remotipart'
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Send e-mail straight from forms in Rails with I18n, validations, attachments and request information.:
gem 'mail_form'
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Easy dynamic nested fields for Rails and jQuery applications:
gem 'awesome_nested_fields'
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Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3:
gem 'asset_sync', :group => :assets
gem 'zurb-foundation', :group => :assets # great starter for layouts
yet another sass based twitter bootstrap:
gem 'bootstrap-sass'
Autoprefixer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails https://twitter.com/autoprefixer:
gem 'autoprefixer-rails'
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used for pdf generation:
gem 'wicked_pdf'
json printing which is very pretty:
gem 'awesome_print'
A simple, pure Ruby implementation of JSON code coloring:
gem 'pizzazz'
Provides a simple helper to get an HTML select list of countries. The list of countries comes from the ISO 3166 standard. While it is a relatively neutral source of country names, it may still offend some users:
gem 'country-select'
Logic-less Ruby templates
gem 'mustache'
Rails gem for handling keyboard shortcuts via mousetrap javascript library:
gem 'mousetrap-rails'
hardcore pagination:
gem 'kaminari'
online store:
gem 'spree'
If you get an “Unable to resolve dependencies” error while installing the Spree gem you can try installing just the spree_cmd gem instead (which has minimal dependencies.):
gem 'spree_cmd'
stripe payment method for spree commerce:
gem 'spree_stripe'
used for billing etc:
gem 'activemerchant', :require => 'active_merchant'
Stripe webhook integration for Rails applications.:
gem 'stripe_event'
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A mocking library for testing stripe ruby:
gem 'stripe-ruby-mock'
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Stripe Ruby bindings:
gem 'stripe'
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Recurring Billing: A Chargify API wrapper for Ruby using ActiveResource.:
gem 'chargify_api_ares'
super fast concurrent web server:
gem 'puma'
A very fast & simple Ruby web server:
gem 'thin'
Phusion Passenger (mod_rails):
gem 'passenger'
XML, HTML PARSING ETC:
gem 'nokogiri'
geo mapping geokit-gem, also use the plugin geokit-rails for advanced functionality:
gem 'geokit'
Squeel lets you write your ActiveRecord queries with fewer strings, and more Ruby, by making the ARel awesomeness that lies beneath ActiveRecord more accessible.:
gem 'squeel'
Code coverage for Ruby 1.9 with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites:
gem
'simplecov', :require => false, :group => :test
Static analysis tool for checking Ruby code for Sandi Metz' rules.:
gem 'sandi_meter'
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Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.:
gem 'flog'
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Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored. Making this totally rad.:
gem 'flay'
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Collection of testing matchers extracted from Shoulda.:
gem 'shoulda-matchers'
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A tool for detecting missing unique indexes in Rails projects.:
gem 'consistency_fail'
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group :test
gem 'cucumber-rails'
gem 'database_cleaner'
group :test, :development
gem launchy'
gem 'nokogiri'
used for creating api docs from rspec:
gem 'rspec_api_documentation'
Helpful rake tasks for Heroku:
gem 'heroku_san'
gem 'capistrano'
Battle-tested capistrano recipes for ruby, rubygems, apache, passenger, delayed_job, juggernaut, thinking_sphinx, mongodb, whenever, among other popular tools:
gem 'cap-recipes'
Really fast deployer and server automation tool(Optional and maybe better than capistrano?)
gem 'mina'
gem 'rspec-rails'
gem 'email_spec'
gem 'capybara'
Test your ActionMailer and Mailer messages with Capybara
gem 'capybara-email'
gem 'capybara-screenshot', :group => :test
gem 'guard-rspec'
gem 'growl_notify'
gem 'cucumber'
gem 'brakeman'
gem 'annotate'
gem 'nifty-generators'
gem 'factory_girl_rails'
Generate fake data for your tests
gem 'faker`
Used for rails Panel
gem 'meta_request'
used for checking your code:
gem 'rails_best_practices'