A few days ago I was introduced to a cool new ruby gem called cheat by my roommate Rob. The ruby cheat gem is an amazing tool to have with you whenever you are programming. Before this gem I would download pdfs cheat sheets for ruby on rails, vim and regular expressions. With this gem I have access to over 548 and growing number of cheat sheets all through the easy access of my mac terminal.

All you have to do is simply type cheat vim and you will get a list of all the cheats for vim. However, a problem I had was that the list was so long and it was a pain to scroll through the terminal. The best way to solve that problem is to write your command with the less command so it would be cheat vim | less. All of the cheat sheets are user created on the website for the cheat gem. There are cheats for a ton of things ranging from ruby on rails, css and some interesting easter eggs as well. When you download the gem try typing cheat girlfriend or cheat coding.

I would have to say this is one of the most useful gems I have installed on my computer. Other gems have helped out a lot with projects, but this one I will be using a lot because it has cheat sheets for such a large range of things that I will be using in many future projects. I would definitely say for any ruby on rails programming the cheat gem should be one of the first gems that you install on your computer.