Tools to help a small shop score higher on the “Joel Test”

Question

Questions #1 through #4 on the Joel Test in my opinion are all about the development tools being used and the support system in place for developers:

1. Do you use so

Answer 1

My engineering stack:

1. Git (I love GitHub, but Git doesn't require a hosted solution)
2. Rake
3. CruiseControl.rb
4. FogBugz

No doubt these choices are influenced by my development stack, which most often includes Ruby, Rails, SQLite, Firefox, and OSX.