A listing of useful Gems

We've had a long discussion about the most useful Gems that people use and there isn't really a lot of consensus (except perhaps for RSpec). What is listed below are Gems that definitely have their proponents.

Testing

• RSpec, a specification test tool that is easier to work with than RUnit
• Mocha, a mocking framework

Web Frameworks

• Rails, the daddy
• Merb, similar to Rails but without the concurrency issues
• Ramaze, an unopinionated web framework
• Sinatra, a DSL for web applications