List the Gems you can't survive without?
List them all :)
nokogiri
open-uri
rspec
json
pry
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I don't know about "can't survive" part but here's a long list of gems I use or like and find useful:
Utils: devise, omniauth, cancan, squeel, ransack, active_scaffold, rails_config, switch_user, simple_form, navigasmic, sentient_model, userstamp, mail_form, carrierwave, state_machine, concerned_with, kaminari, recommendable, jbuilder, ancestry, acts_as_nested_set, acts_as_nested_interval [ my gem :) ], paper_trail, version_fu, pdfkit, wicked_pdf, wkhtmltopdf-binary, delayed_job, whenever, active-model-email-validator, nested_form, cocoon, bitfields
Test: rspec-rails, factory_girl_rails, faker, capybara, shoulda, database_cleaner, simplecov, spork, guard, capybara-webkit, timecop, vcr, fakeweb, capybara-mechanize, capybara-selenium-remote
Assets: compass-rails, sass-rails, bootstrap-sass, jquery-rest-rails, fullcalendar-rails, underscore-rails, jquery-ui-rails, coffee-rails, chosen-rails, pjax_rails, rails-backbone, jquery-rails
Development: mongrel, debugger, mailcatcher
Production: dalli, exception_notification, capistrano, capistrano-ext
Utils: devise, omniauth, cancan, squeel, ransack, active_scaffold, rails_config, switch_user, simple_form, navigasmic, sentient_model, userstamp, mail_form, carrierwave, state_machine, concerned_with, kaminari, recommendable, jbuilder, ancestry, acts_as_nested_set, acts_as_nested_interval [ my gem :) ], paper_trail, version_fu, pdfkit, wicked_pdf, wkhtmltopdf-binary, delayed_job, whenever, active-model-email-validator, nested_form, cocoon, bitfields
Test: rspec-rails, factory_girl_rails, faker, capybara, shoulda, database_cleaner, simplecov, spork, guard, capybara-webkit, timecop, vcr, fakeweb, capybara-mechanize, capybara-selenium-remote
Assets: compass-rails, sass-rails, bootstrap-sass, jquery-rest-rails, fullcalendar-rails, underscore-rails, jquery-ui-rails, coffee-rails, chosen-rails, pjax_rails, rails-backbone, jquery-rails
Development: mongrel, debugger, mailcatcher
Production: dalli, exception_notification, capistrano, capistrano-ext
I can live without Ruby and Rubygems
but for doing web development I just need the basics;
* rails # the framework
* devise # the auth
* debugger # uh, the debugger
* newrelic_rpm # the monitoring
All the rest depends on the project.
* rails # the framework
* devise # the auth
* debugger # uh, the debugger
* newrelic_rpm # the monitoring
All the rest depends on the project.
truly, truly essential = warbs, himmy, jarbo, wuxmen, and surgical woman