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Rails plug-ins are code packages that can be added to a Rails application. Unlike gems, which are part of the system and can be invoked by multiple applications, plug-ins are installed as part of an individual Rails application.Articles
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Pagination in Ruby On Rails using will_paginate plugin
How to convert from legacy Rails 1 pagination to the Rails 2 compatible will_paginate plugin. Unlike classic pagination, will_paginate works from a model, so you can keep writing fat models.
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Feeds for Free
Utilizing microformats (hAtom) to kill two birds with one view utilizing the mofo plugin.
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Starling and Asynchronous Tasks in Ruby on Rails
Workling is a wrapper around asynchronous task runners such as Starling and Spawn.
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Acts As Taggable Tag Cloud
Walk through of how to visualize acts_as_taggable content as a tag cloud with CSS.
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An Attachment Walked Into A Bar. Was That U, Fu?
A walkthrough using the attachment_fu plugin, including some testing and various useful links.
- 10 Ruby On Rails Plugins You Should Be Using
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Google's OpenSocial with Ruby on Rails
Plugin for integrating OpenSocial with Rails.
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Ideas For Dozens: learns_to use acts_as_versioned
An introductory article on using the acts_as_versioned plugin.
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- Hpricot HTML Parser
- better rails caching
Plugin for high performance caching. From the site description: "Interlock uses memcached to make your view fragments and associated controller blocks march along together. If a fragment is fresh, the controller behavior won't run. This eliminates duplicate effort from your request cycle. Your controller blocks run so infrequently that you can use regular ActiveRecord finders and not worry about object caching at all." - Action Cache plugin >> CRAZ8
A Rails plugin that is a drop-in replacement for Rails Action Caching. Adds many useful features including: last-modified header usage, storing response headers in cache, custom cache key implementations, conditional caching, and more. - Content-only caching for Rails
Introduces a new level of caching for Rails in which content that doesn't include layouts is cached. Similar to action caching, but more granular.
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- Excel export plug-in
- ActiveScaffold
ActiveScaffold is a plugin that dynamically generates Ajax-based scaffolds that understand model associations and are customizable via configuration statements. - Custom Scaffold for Rails
A plugin that replaces the view code produced by the standard Rails scaffold with a view that explicitly references each column, rather than iterating over all the columns, so it is much easier to customize. - GeoKit: a plugin for location-based Rails apps
Plugin for building location-based apps; provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation. - Datetime Toolbocks - Intuitive Date Input Selection
Plugin that provides a JavaScript widget for entering dates in a mini-calendar, and also parses many common text versions of dates -- even things like "next Tuesday". - acts_as_textiled
Plugin that makes using Textile as simple as it can be. The specified model field is always interpreted as Textile when displayed, except when in a form (for editing). - Textile Editor Helper
Plugin that shows a simple toolbar over Textile text-entry areas, so you can, for example, click a Word-like "B" icon for bold and it will wrap the selected text in asterisks. (Display is still not wysiwyg, however.) - validates_email_format_of
Plugin to provide a validation for email address formats. - Sitealizer Web Stats plugin for Rails
Plugin lets you track visitors, referrers, robots, search terms and more. - Combustible
Rails plugin for accessing the FeedBurner API. - Google Analytics Plugin at Notes from a messy desk
A simple plugin that inserts the google analytics tracking code in your layout. - YM4R: Yahoo Maps for Rails
Plugin for using Yahoo maps in Rails applications. - /plugins/legacy/ - Rails Trac - Trac
Legacy Rails core plugins. - Blazing fast page loads through bundled CSS and Javascript
Plugin that bundles multiple CSS and JavaScript files into a single pair of files to improve page rendering times. - ActsAsIndexed
- acts_as_emailable
- codefluency's keyword_search-1.3.1 Documentation
Add gmail-like keyword search (using keyword:value pairs) to your application. - Savvication: Email Veracity Plugin
Plugin for validating email addresses using the existence of an MX record as the test. - activecalendar
- annotate_models plugin
Provides a rake tasks that adds comments to all your models listing the database columns. - SeeSaw | Rails Widgets
- Announcing acts_as_taggable_on
- Announcing Princely Rails Prince XML PDF Wrapper
- comatose-plugin
A "micro-CMS" (content management system) Rails plug-in. - XSendFile
Rails plugin to support the X-Sendfile protocol, which enables you to use Rails to do authentication while having the web server deliver the file. - Active Merchant
The most widely used payment processing library for Ruby on Rails. Provides interfaces to more than 30 gateways with a single, abstracted API. Extracted from the Shopify hosted service. - /plugins - Rails Trac - Trac
Here's where to find all the plugins that used to be in Rails but were pushed out for Rails 2, such as acts_as_list, acts_as_tree, and scaffolding. You'll also find other plugins that were never in the framework but have come from the core team, such as exception_notification and ssl_requirement. - Dojo Toolbocks
Plugin for using the Dojo JavaScript libraries with Ruby on Rails applications. - Better Partials Plugin for Ruby on Rails
A nice simplification for rendering partials. - RubyForge: Acts As Ordered Tree: Project Info
- Auto Tags
Auto-generates tags based on text content. - in_place_editor for rails2.0 - EnjoyRails
A modified version of the in_place_editor plugin code so that it works with Rails 2.0 - Official Rails plugins
These are the plugins that live in the official Rails repository. Some are in serious need of updating, however, and in some cases there are better alternatives elsewhere. - Plugems Runtime
A gem that supports using enhanced gems to replace Rails plugins. - jRails -- jQuery on Rails
jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using the lighter jQuery library. - ActionMailer with optional TLS
github home of the action_mailer_optional_tls plugin. Use this plugin to connect to Google GMail from your Rails app. Pay attention to Googles TOU, as there are limits to the number of email messages you can send in one day. - Debug View Helper
This plugin adds easily accessible debug information into your views. It adds a button that will pop up a new window that displays request parameters, session variables, flash variables, and assigned template variables.
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PluginAWeek
These prolific plug-in developers provide detailed blog posts on Rails techniques.
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Enhanced Migrations v1.2.0
Plug-in that provides improved migration support, simplifying coordination of multiple developers.
