What are your top useful gems?

• timecop

  4 3,334 6.1 Ruby

  A gem providing "time travel", "time freezing", and "time acceleration" capabilities, making it simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.

• Sorcery

  10 1,412 5.0 Ruby

  Magical Authentication (by Sorcery)

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• dotenv

  19 6,502 8.6 Ruby

  A Ruby gem to load environment variables from `.env`. (by bkeepers)

Weirdly enough, the first thing that comes to my mind is dotenv. Whether you are working on a team of alone, being able to just use .env files to create configure your environment is pretty useful to me.

• Lograge

  7 3,398 5.0 Ruby

  An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.

Also a big fan of Lograge, because I just can't stand Rails default logs.

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