There are some pretty sweet plugins out there for Ruby on Rails, but being a beginer with this frame work I’ve found and used these five the most. In no particular order:
Hmmmm, how do you say? Image, photo, graphic management with only writing about 10 lines of code? How bout, BOO YA YIPPIE WOO HOO go suck it PHP! JK I still love you php but just not like Ruby on Rails.
2) DELAYED_JOB
Delayed job is a plugin that let you send or offload processes into the background, so if you have a script that would normally take extremely long to do and don’t want the user waiting till it’s finished this is a plugin you want to checkout.
Wow a plugin for pagination! And I’m only writing: <%= will_paginate @subscribers %> Holly woowsers where do I sign up?
So authenticating can be downright hard, confusing and annoying… well to do it right and with no security flaws that is. So why not just use someone’s tried, testing and tough like a champ code that allows for admin authentication, sign up activation and more? This plugin rules and your only writing one line of code to tell it which methods should be closed to the public. It also gives you a wacka load of helpful methods to use all over your application.
This is one cool plugin. When you have a CMS and you allow for people to add; lets say pages to their site, you can use this plugin by putting a line of code or two in your model to automatically create a friendly url. Example: Page called “This Plugin Rocks!” will create a url called this-plugin-rocks! It’s really that simple.
6) WHENEVER
Run scripts, rake tasks etc like cronjobs in pure Ruby. This is much easier than modifying your crontab. This plugin does it for you.
7) CACHE_FU
If you want caching and use memcache, this is a sweet plugin to checkout, although the documentation isn’t very good, you can do a ton of great caching with this cache_fu.
8) FACTORY_GIRL
Factories not fixtures? Yes please, write factories that make it way way easier for you to maintain data in Rails tests.
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