Gemfile of dreams: the libraries we use to build Rails apps—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Evil Martians has worked on dozens of Ruby on Rails projects every year. Naturally, this involves a lot of Ruby gems. Some reflect our desire to use modern tools (or build our own!) Others are so flexible they’ve been used in most of our projects. Our development philosophies, programming habits, and soul are within this universe of Martian gems. What would it look like if they were somehow able to converge into one gemfile—the ideal Martian Gemfile—the toolbox of the extraterrestrial Rails engineer? .