Plugins by Trevor Squires

• Acts As Enumerated

  Treats ActiveRecord models as an enumerations.

• resource_fu

  A collection of hacks that make nested and polymorphic resources less painful.

• Values Of

  Adds a values_of class method to ActiveRecord::Base classes.

  Under the hood is simply does a construct_finder_sql, forcing :select to be
  whatever you pass in the first argument, using that to call
  connection.select_values and (optionally) type_cast()ing the resulting values.

  Aside from being prettier than passing a honking long SQL string to
  connection.select_values, the use of construct_finder_sql also ensures that
  any with_scope() in effect will be honored.