Five gems I like a little bit.Jeremy WeiskottenTerrible Labs@doctorzaius

Wednesday, February 6, 13

zeus

Wednesday, February 6, 13

zeus

• Preloads your Rails app

• Lets you start the server, console, or rake task, or run a generator, in less than a second!

• Kind of like spork, only way better and not intrusive

Wednesday, February 6, 13

zeus•$  zeus  start

•$  zeus  server

•$  zeus  console

•$  zeus  test

•$  zeus  generate

•$  zeus  rake

Don’t put zeus in your Gemfile!

Wednesday, February 6, 13

active_hash

Wednesday, February 6, 13

active_hash

• Read-only data source

• Acts like ActiveRecord

• Data that’s not really data

• types

• units

• constanty things

Wednesday, February 6, 13

active_hash

Wednesday, February 6, 13

active_hash

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active_hash

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simple_form

Wednesday, February 6, 13

simple_form

Wednesday, February 6, 13

simple_form

Custom field types are simple too!

Wednesday, February 6, 13

Twitter Boostrap Style

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simple_form

Wednesday, February 6, 13

redcarpet

Wednesday, February 6, 13

redcarpet

#  This  is  a  heading

##  And  a  subheading

Best  paragraph  ever!

Another  paragraph!  With  **important**  [links](http://haml.info).

*  Item  1*  Item  2*  Item  3

Renders markdown, which is awesome

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Haml + Redcarpet = ♥

• Haml is great for structure

• But “Haml sucks for content”http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/02/08/haml-sucks-for-content/

• Use Haml’s :markdown filter with a markdown processor like Redcarpet for maximum winnings

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Haml sucking

Wednesday, February 6, 13

Haml not sucking

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better_errors

Wednesday, February 6, 13

better_errors

• Error pages don’t suck any more

• Only add to your Gemfile’s development group!

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better_errors

Sssshhh... a bonus gem!

Wednesday, February 6, 13

better_errors

LIVE DEMONSTRATION

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