> But what worries me about this advice is that there are some things that feel like they're trivial to implement […] It's up to the developer to make that cal

> But what worries me about this advice is that there are some things that feel like they're trivial to implement […] It's up to the developer to make that call. For things like OpenSSL or concurrency libraries it seems an easy choice. You will definitely save time and effort using a library for that. For things like pagination a few scopes with a view helper might cause less problems than a gem in the long run.