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Choosing the right gems for your project
Adding a gem means you take over the liability towards the external code.
Checklist
Based on " To gem, or not to gem Archive ":
- Gem is really needed (prefer writing your own code for simple requirements without many edge cases)
- Gem is tested well (coverage and quality)
- Gem has a good code quality
- Gem's licence fits to the project requirement
- Try to avoid gems that do much more than your requirement scope needs
- Gem has a good maturity and maintenance
- Gem has a good / familiar DSL
- If it's hard to do right, choose a mature gem (e.g. Devise or Clearance for authentication) instead of building it yourself
Also see the chapter "Owning your Stack" in the book Growing Rails Applications in Practice Archive .
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Does your version of Ruby on Rails still receive security updates?
Rails LTS provides security patches for unsupported versions of Ruby on Rails (2.3, 3.2, 4.2 and 5.2).
