With Ruby gems, you can find a solution almost for any task, which will significantly cut the time you need for web development. We present you 40 most used Ruby gems that can be very helpful for you.
Nowadays, web developers are able to access ready-made solutions instead of writing the functions from scratch, which of course has a great positive impact on the speed of development. When we look at Ruby from this point of view, it stands out due to extensive libraries called Ruby gems. They offer particular functionalities to Ruby applications you build up. Suppose you want to have an authentication function in your program – you don’t need to write one, you can get it in a form of a gem. And this is only one example among thousands of Ruby gems available for free.
A list of cool Ruby gems, which is just a small part of all the gems helping us build great products:
- Rubocop
- Overcommit
- Better_errors
- Byebug
- RSpec
- Capybara
- Capybara Screenshot
- Parallel_tests
- Factory Bot
- Chromedriver_helper
- Shoulda Matchers
- Simplecov
- Database Cleaner
- RSpec::Retry
- Faker
- Mina
- Devise
- Ruby-JWT
- CanCanCan
- OmniAuth
- Carrierwave
- Carrierwave_backgrounder
- MiniMagick
- Elasticsearch
- Activeadmin
- Administrate
- Sidekiq
- Simple_form
- Friendly_Id
- Dotenv-rails
- Slim
- Draper
- Redis
- Annotate
- Pg_search
- Wicked
- Config
- I18n- tasks
- Money_rails
- Impressionist
Of course, there are thousands of Ruby gems, and each of them has great value. Read more about each of them here.
And read great news about RubyGems 3.0.0 package manager release!