I echo some of the sentiment that some of these gems provide, but they are quite helpful in getting a quick project up and running in a few minutes to start pla

I echo some of the sentiment that some of these gems provide, but they are quite helpful in getting a quick project up and running in a few minutes to start playing around. Some of my favorites: figaro[1] Alternative to dotenv, awesome mascot. rack-mini-profiler[2] Often folks will say to save performance tuning until the end. I find having this around from the get go makes it much easier to do as you move along. I love sidekiq though. Probably the best on the list. Background queues are essential to most, if not all Rails applications. The goworker post from today looks interesting too. [1] https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro [2] https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler