Some Of My Favorite Ruby Gems

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There are thousands of Ruby gems out in the wild. I use many on almost every Ruby on Rails project I create. This is an impromptu list of some of my favorite Ruby gems I recommend you check out if you haven't yet. I would love to hear some of your favorites. Share some in the comments!

Links to each gem:

Devise: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise

CanCanCan: https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan

Chartkick: https://chartkick.com/

Annotate: https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models

FriendlyID: https://github.com/norman/friendly_id/

MetaTags: https://github.com/kpumuk/meta-tags

Impressionist: https://github.com/charlotte-ruby/impressionist

Draftsman: https://github.com/copasetickid/draftsman

Pry-rails & Pry: https://github.com/rweng/pry-rails http://pryrepl.org/

Pay: https://github.com/pay-rails/pay

Mailcatcher: https://mailcatcher.me/

RedCarpet: https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet

ActsAsVotable: https://github.com/ryanto/acts_as_votable

ActsAsTaggable: https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

Unread: https://github.com/ledermann/unread

Homebrew and Homebrew-cask https://github.com/Homebrew/brew https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask

Pagy: https://github.com/ddnexus/pagy

Sidekiq: https://sidekiq.org/

Whenever: https://github.com/javan/whenever

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