Plugins by Pat Maddox

• UrlForWithPrefix

  Adds the :prefix option to url_for, which makes it easy to link to other rails applications hosted at the same hostname.

• RSpec Resource Generator

  Use this generator to generate RESTful scaffolding with RSpec specifications.

• acts_as_twittertasticable!!

  Make your models tell the world what they're doing with Twitter!

• rspec_plugin generator

  Plugin generator that uses RSpec stubs instead of Test::Unit. Also sets up database connections for testing against an isolated database.

• count_from_query

  Easily convert finder queries into count queries

• ArPaginator

  Allows you to easily paginate over any existing AR queries. paginator.paginate { my_company.complete_videos }

• instance_validations

  Add validations directly to instances of your AR model, not just at the class-level

• Test exemplars

  A better way of dealing with fixtures

• No Peeping Toms

  Disables observers during testing, allowing you to write model tests that are completely decoupled from the observer. Also lets you enable observers for a certain block of code, so that you can write observer tests