The document discusses 5 Ruby gems:
1. Zeus - A tool for preloading Rails apps to speed up tasks like starting servers and running generators.
2. ActiveHash - Acts like ActiveRecord for read-only data like types, units, and constants.
3. SimpleForm - Simplifies and customizes forms in Rails apps with custom field types and Bootstrap styling.
4. Redcarpet - Renders Markdown content to HTML for use in views and Haml.
5. BetterErrors - Improves the appearance and functionality of error pages in Rails apps during development.
3. 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
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4. zeus
• $
zeus
start
• $
zeus
server
• $
zeus
console
• $
zeus
test
• $
zeus
generate
• $
zeus
rake
Don’t put zeus in your Gemfile!
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6. active_hash
• Read-only data source
• Acts like ActiveRecord
• Data that’s not really data
• types
• units
• constanty things
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16. redcarpet
Renders markdown, which is awesome
#
This
is
a
heading
##
And
a
subheading
Best
paragraph
ever!
Another
paragraph!
With
**important**
[links](http://
haml.info).
*
Item
1
*
Item
2
*
Item
3
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17. 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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