simple_form

Devise[1] alone makes it worth using rails for many webapps. Throw in things like simple form[2] and will paginate[3] and it's incredible how much you can get done cleanly and quickly. Using something like intercooler.js, you can build a solid modern web app in a fraction of the complexity of most systems today. 1 - https://github.com/plataformatec/devise 2 - https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form 3 - https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate

And it's ActiveModel-based! Hallelujah! For those not of a rails persuasion, ActiveModel is basically all the non-datastore stuff abstracted out from ActiveRecord, rails' ORM. So, this Toy Store lib will share all its validation, accessor etc. apis with ActiveRecord and so will already automatically be compatible with the huge range of rails libraries out there. A good example is simple_form, a rails gem for doing lovely forms without any markup. In theory you should be able to hook this into Toy Store and therefore all those key/value stores with zero effort. https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form ActiveModel is on course to become Rack for data objects. When this idea is fully explored it's gonna make so many things so easy. Soon we're all going to be auto-generating javascript client-side validation code from our server-side acti