My favorite Ruby gems | Frank's blog

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2021-05-27 13:00:09

I’m always hesistant when it comes to using gems. Every gem you add to a project is a bit of added risk, what if it contains a security bug? What if the developers stop maitaining it? What if it doesn’t work with the next Ruby version? Of course, building everything yourself is not an option either. Through the years I’ve built a list of gems I trust and use. So far I’ve never shared these anywhere public. I’m changing that with this post.

A more extensive xlsx file generatore (pure Ruby). It has more features than fast_excel, but that comes at a cost: slower and more memory usage.

Note that I’ve never built a project with all these gems in it. I always try to keep the dependencies to a minimum to avoid headaches when upgrading gems or the server operating system.