Backend development is challenging, underappreciated, and an awesome job.

Every application needs configuration data like database passwords, AWS access keys, and social app IDs before it can run.

In the Ruby world, these gems are created on a daily basis, but only some of them are good enough to win our hearts.

Ever needed a progress bar for some long-running task in your Rails application? We created a progress_job gem that helps with that problem.

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