[craigmcnamara]

Rails out of the box is ready to build a production ready project. These are for when developer preferences diverge from the out of the box rails defaults. I love RSpec and I always set that up when I start a new Rails/Ruby project. If you do consulting work, you definitely make new apps frequently and having your favorite things ready to go is a plus. Thoughtbot has a project called suspenders that includes their preferences for new apps.