We should also look at our use of the FITS library. Are we downloading it from the right place (harvard rather than the github page)? Is the version we're grabbing sensible (it seems old)? Do we even need this anymore (is it a core part of Hyrax? Solr does some of this stuff natively....)

@jechols
Looks like 1.0.5 is no longer necessary: harvard-lts/fits#140
Since 1.2.0 FITS should include a fix that was holding Hyrax back. We could try pulling 1.5.0 from github but from my quick tests it seems to be slightly slower because of the increased size.

Side note: 1.0.5 hosted by github is much faster for me, but this is probably because of some caching/CDN details, I wouldn't rely on it.

From the developers meeting it sounded like we wanted several devs to take a pass at cutting out gems and see if we can all agree on which can go, so I've assigned the smallest group I think should take a look at this. Others are welcome to chime in.

Here's my attempt at removing gems: #879

• devise-guest, we're not using guest user anywhere yet
• jbuilder, we're not doing any JSON API building yet
• net-http-persistent, we haven't opened any persistent http connections
• debase* & ruby-debug-ide, needed for rubymine IDE integration, don't know if other developers are using rubymine
• rails-controller-testing, we're not using assigns or assert_template expectations One controller spec uses assigns

Side notes:

• shoulda-matchers was pinned to a branch and ~200 commits out of date. The branch has been merged several releases ago
• coffee-rails is a requirement for Hyrax or one of its dependencies but hasn't been added to either gemspecs
• listen is a requirement of puma but isn't part of its gemspec

The only thing I can do here is remove a gem we still end up with. haml is required by some dependency, but we don't actually use it. I figure we may as well ditch it so we aren't implying it's in use by us directly, and we get to remove it from the stack if our dependency changes.

My only other change was that I commented @CGillen's findings directly in the Gemfile so they aren't lost.