Essential Ruby on Rails Plugins

Provides a thin wrapper around the excellent ruby-openid gem from JanRan. Be sure to install that first:

gem install ruby-openid

ruby-openid
http://openidenabled.com/ruby-openid/

The ultimate rating system for ActiveRecord models. Highly flexible and configurable, while easy to use with the defaults. Supports 3 different ways to manage the statistics, and creates all the needed associations for easy access to everything.

Most web applications have many more model objects exposed on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the front. Coding interfaces for all those models is redundant and a waste of resources when all you need is CRUD functionality that's smart enough to handle all your ActiveRecord associations.

This White Listing helper will html encode all tags and strip all attributes that aren’t specifically allowed.

This plugin is based on acts_as_taggable by DHH but includes extras such as tests, smarter tag assignment, and tag cloud calculations.

Treat an ActiveRecord model as a file attachment, storing its patch, size, content type, etc.

JavaScript and CSS Asset Compression for Production Rails Apps

The Exception Notifier plugin provides a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application.

Mashes Rails’ Test::Unit::TestCase fixture loading with RSpec.

Pagination is just limiting the number of records displayed. Why should you let it get in your way while developing, then? This plugin makes magic happen.

This is a basic restful authentication generator for rails, taken from acts as authenticated. Currently it requires Rails 1.2 (or edge).