What are the gems that every Ruby dev should know how to use?

• Blueprinter

  12 1,058 8.9 Ruby

  Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby

  

Just an FYI: While I agree that the blueprinter gem is awesome, there are currently no active maintainers: https://github.com/procore/blueprinter/issues/288

• bundler-audit

  5 2,643 6.1 Ruby

  Patch-level verification for Bundler

  

bundler-audit - check for known security issues

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• Discard

  5 2,020 6.0 Ruby

  🃏🗑 Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right

discard - a soft-delete implementation that avoids a lot of the gotchas associated with paranoia or acts_as_paranoid gem.

• CanCanCan

  19 5,501 2.2 Ruby

  The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

  

It fails deadly -- forgetting to pass an instance grants unintended access, and this problem is so bad they have a document explaining how to avoid it. If you use a permission in an unintended way, it should not grant access.

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