Getting started with rails? Must have gems?

Question

I\'m starting work on a project using Rails, but I\'m waiting for the 3rd edition of the pragmatic rails book to come out before I purchase a book.

Anyway, my questi

Answer 1

This is a old thread but I thought I'll refine the list with what I believe to be must have gems at this point in time:

• RSpec or Shoulda - tools for BDD/testing
• factory_girl - fixture replacement
• will_paginate - simple pagination
• paperclip - image uploading/attachment
• CanCan - authorization
• Authlogic - authentication
• HAML - templating engine