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

HAML is a must have. You'll never think of HTML in the same way again -- No more tag soup.

Answer 2

Might want to keep an eye on: http://rubygems.org/ - you can see some interesting stats there re: most downloaded, most active, etc...

Also interesting and somewhat telling: https://github.com/languages/Ruby

Answer 3

The gems and plugins that I tend to use on most of my projects are:

• Restful Authentication -- For authentication
• Will Paginate -- For pagination
• Attachment Fu -- For image and file attachments
• RedCloth -- For textile rendering
• Capistrano -- For deployment

Answer 4

How can nobody have mentioned andand yet? It's the best thing since ||=