Clog

Rails Rumble has finished and the winner has already been announced. Most of the entries made us flummoxed on how these contestant could develop such a polished application. So I take some pride to dissect what are some of the interesting gems used by the contestants.

Assets

• quiet_assets - Suppress assets log
• sprite-factory - Convert images in stylesheet to sprite

Views

• nestive - Improved layout rendering (still a proof of concept)
• simple_form - DSL form builder (like Formtastic but no opinion markup)
• stamp - Date and time formatting with human-friendly example
• chronic - Natural language time parser
• mobylette - Serve mobile view

Rails

• validates_email - ActiveRecord email validation
• timeline_fu - Github style timeline
• brakeman - Rails security scanner
• rails_config - Configuration for different environment

Services

• honeybadger - Error management service
• exceptional - Error logging
• intercom - User data
• octokit - Github API wrapper

Server

• dragonfly - Rack files handling/uploading
• guard - Event listener for file modification

Database

• texticle - Full text search for PostgreSQL