Thread by @rohan_daxini

Ruby gems worth checking and considering

A thread 🧵👇

#Ruby #Rails #rubyonrails

💎 scientist 💎
A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths

github.com/github/scienti…

💎 strong_migrations 💎
Catch unsafe migrations in development

github.com/ankane/strong_…

by @andrewkane

💎cache-money💎
A Write-Through Cacheing Library for ActiveRecord

github.com/nkallen/cache-…

by @nk

💎searchkick 💎
Intelligent search made easy

github.com/ankane/searchk…

by @andrewkane

💎 mailcatcher 💎
Catches mail and serves it through a dream

github.com/sj26/mailcatch…

by @sj26

💎 flipper 💎
Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby

github.com/jnunemaker/fli…

by @jnunemaker

💎 isolator 💎
Detect non-atomic interactions within DB transactions

github.com/palkan/isolator

by @palkan_tula

💎 coverband💎
Ruby production code coverage collection and reporting

github.com/danmayer/cover…

by @danmayer

💎 annotate_models 💎
Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info

github.com/ctran/annotate…

by @ctran

💎 dotenv 💎
Load environment variables from `.env`.

github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

by @bkeepers

🔴 Caution before using any gem i.e. before adding any dependency 🔴

- Check if you really need a gem for your requirements. Don't use a gem for anything and everything.

- Don't use security-related gems. But if you have to ever then use them with utmost precaution.