Category: Model

• :dependent => :protect option

  Adds a new value to has_many's dependent option named protect so you will never destroy a record with associated records.

• Active form

  Provides support for non-ActiveRecord Model Objects that support Validations.

• ActiveRecord 1337

  Render text from your database as leet-speak.

• ActiveRecord Default Options

  configures your model's #find method to automatically default to certain options.

• ActiveRecord Defaults

  Easily specify default values for AR models.

• ActiveRecord ScrollableResultSet Plugin

  The plugin allows us to iterate through a query's result set in batches resultingin faster response times.Active Record's find methods accumulate all the rows andreturn them in one shot. This results in a lead time proportional to the size of the result set.

• ActiveRecord::Base Without Table

  Get the power of ActiveRecord models, including validation, without having a table in the database.

• ActiveRecordChanged

  This is deprecated as the functionality is now in Rails.

• Activewarehouse

  ActiveWarehouse for Rails - Implement data warehouses with Rails

• active_record_each

  ActiveRecord::Base.each/.map instance methods

• Acts as Activated

  Hides records until they are activated.

• Acts as archive

  Don't delete your records, move them to a different table

• Acts as attachment

  Allows you to specify that a model accepts file uploads and stores the necessary meta info (filename, size, etc).

• Acts As Authorizable

  Instance specific hierarchical authorization support. Piggybacks on existing model associations

• Acts As Automatic

  Automatically adds belongs_to :whatever when it detects whatever_id in the model's table. Also can apply associations defined in a YAML file.

• Acts As Bitfield

  Lets you use a bitfield to store boolean values for a record and abstracts away all the horrible messiness of actually having to deal with bitwise logic yourself.

• Acts As Blog

  Here is a new plugin that allows you to easily switch between BlueCloth,RedCloth, and SmartyPants for you markup. It will also allow you to filter out html tags that weren't created with the markup syntax. Very usefull for blogs!

• Acts As Bookmarkable

  A bookmarkable model can be any ActiveRecord class so you can use the acts_as_bookmarkable to bookmark other users in a friends list, or bookmark posts in a favorites list, etc.

• Acts as Changed

  Specifies only the changed fields when updating the database record.

• Acts as Classifiable

  This plugin makes it easy to add a Bayesian classifier to your models.