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10 essential ruby gems
Posted on Tue 8 Jan, 2008
There’s a few things I can’t live without when I’m programming. To that end, this is a list of 10 essential ruby gems that will make your life much easier, even if you only spend a small amount of time working with ruby.
Gems come and go, but these are keepers!
capistrano
Capistrano makes Rails application deployment less of a hassle. It’s also a clever framework for interacting with remote servers. I actually have backup scripts written with Capistrano, as an alternative to Rake/Net::SSH or shell scripts.
chronic
Chronic is a natural language time parser, with the added bonus of having a pun for its name.
Chronic.parse(‘3rd wednesday in november’)
=> Wed Nov 19 12:00:00 0000 2008
ferret
Ferret will make your boss/clients/customers love you. It provides tools for fast text searching, and you can even index PDFs and Office documents. I’ve used Ferret on some p…
