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What are the "Must Have" Ruby Gems
There are a load of great Rubygems out there that do some amazing things. In fact, I sometimes wonder what I'd do without Rubygems - they certainly give a load of appeal to Ruby and Rails.
What are you favorites, and what would you recommend to install?
Sinatra gets more press these days as a microframework but manveru created Ramaze years earlier, is still actively developing it and still providing support on the Google group for Ramaze. Worth checking out.
Ohhhh, I loves me some will_paginate and calendar_date_select.
Faker is awfully useful as well.
For attaching files to various objects (specifically ActiveRecord models) I like to use Paperclip. RSpec and ZenTest are pretty awesome too!
highline is great - solves a bunch of common problems once and for all