14 devel: Useful Ruby Gems, Rails Plugins and Other Valuable Ruby/Rails Development Tools

• If you want to do something serious with tags, you might want to use the acts_as_taggable or the acts_as_taggable_on_steroids Rails plug-in. (via)
• If you are after developing some sort of Twitter (or similar) bot, my Twitter bot framework could be of help.
• On testing migrations, a migrations testing helper I found might help you.
• The sake Ruby Gem. Got a glance onto it during some local Ruby/Rails presentation and were impressed. Though forgot what it was for. Suspecting, it had anything to do with Subversion.
• ease creating Rails views
• ease dealing with CSS
• Nicholas Seckar figured out a way to integrate Rake with Bash so that auto-completion works for tasks Rake can perform (also known as “targets”).
• Ruby Shell — Rush for short — is a replacement for a command line shell like Bash.

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