# Explain the gems
**URL:** https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/explain-the-gems/5406
**Category:** General
**Created:** [October 25, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/explain-the-gems/5406 "2023-10-25T20:06:37Z")
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### Author:  [@rctneil](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/rctneil)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/explain-the-gems/5406/1 "2023-10-25T20:06:37Z")
Hi,
I’m getting confused about all the gems surrounding hotwire. Can someone explain the differences?
- hotwire-rails
- turbo-rails
- stimulus-rails
- strada-rails
I’m assuming that hotwire-rails is basically a shortcut for adding all the 3 other gems? Is that right?
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### Author:  [@supairish](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/supairish)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/explain-the-gems/5406/2 "2023-11-02T02:42:50Z")
As far as I understand hotwire-rails is deprecated and shouldn’t be used going forward. And yes it was a “meta” gem that just had dependencies to turbo-rails & stimulus-rails. Use those gems directly going forward.
turbo-rails for sped up page loads, streams, stream-actions
stimulus-rails for view controllers, basically what would replace all your previous jQuery event handlers/interactions/etc using MutationObserver browser APIs (abstracted away for you)
strada-rails for making your web views into a iOS “native” (really more hybrid) mobile app that could go into the app store