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:
github.com/plataformatec/devise
CanCanCan:
github.com/CanCanCommunity/ca...
Chartkick:
chartkick.com/
Annotate:
github.com/ctran/annotate_models
FriendlyID:
github.com/norman/friendly_id/
MetaTags:
github.com/kpumuk/meta-tags
Impressionist:
github.com/charlotte-ruby/imp...
Draftsman:
github.com/copasetickid/draft...
Pry-rails & Pry:
github.com/rweng/pry-rails
pryrepl.org/
Pay:
github.com/pay-rails/pay
Mailcatcher:
mailcatcher.me/
RedCarpet:
github.com/vmg/redcarpet
ActsAsVotable:
github.com/ryanto/acts_as_vot...
ActsAsTaggable:
github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-ta...
Unread:
github.com/ledermann/unread
Homebrew and Homebrew-cask
github.com/Homebrew/brew
github.com/caskroom/homebrew-...
Pagy:
github.com/ddnexus/pagy
Sidekiq:
sidekiq.org/
Whenever:
github.com/javan/whenever
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[@weefunkster]

Let us take a moment to appreciate poppa Ryan Bates and all that he has done for not just us noobs but Rails as a whole.

[@MrBowmanXD]

Great video idea. Has a noob is good to know some gems to install in the next project.

[@ConcernedHorse]

Thanks Andy, hope to see you at the next RailsCon event. Greetings from Dominican Republic

[@daleryanaldover6545]

I would love to see a series for the "Pay" gem. Imagine having multiple payment gateways handled by just a single gem OHOHOHO

[@abuccarelli]

Cool yes please do a video with sidekiq + whenever !

[@kamkara007]

Super list.
Hey Andy when I'll Share the video who build an app microservice architecture with rails.

[@esirioneyibo]

Great list Andy. Hey, what about music? What is your favorite song or playlist you listen to when coding?

[@Webcrunch]

Great idea. I may do a video on this coming up!