Top 10 Most Excellent Gems to Use in Any Ruby Web Application | Fullstack Ruby

The ecosystem of Ruby gems is rich with libraries to enable all sorts of useful functionality you’ll need as you write your web applications. However, at times it can be a challenge when you’re working within a broader Ruby context (aka not using Rails) to find gems which integrate well into all sorts of Ruby applications. Occasionally you’ll come across a gem which doesn’t clearly label itself as Rails-only. In other cases, the manner in which you can use the gem outside of Rails isn’t clearly documented or there are odd limitations.