Top Rated Plugins

• Acts As Taggable

  Adds tagging or folksonomy support to any model.

• Calendar Helper

  Make a simple, customizable calendar.

• paginating_find

  Makes it easy to load tens of thousands of model instances through the standard ActiveRecord find methods in "pages" rather than all at once.

• Validation Reflection

  Reflect on validations.

• 12 hour time

  Not all of us are adept at those exotic, 24-hour clocks. So for the rest of us,
  here's a simple plugin that tacks on an AM/PM selector to the DateHelper
  methods. It also handles the backend, so things are properly stored in 24-hour
  format.

• ActiveRecord::Base Without Table

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

• BackgroundFu

  Background tasks made dead simple.

• Acts As Enumerated

  Treats ActiveRecord models as an enumerations.

• File Column Plugin

  Makes handling of file uploads really easy and has a nice integration with rmagick.

• ReCaptcha

  ReCaptcha helpers for Rails apps

• Localization Simplified

  Dead simple localization for one-language (non-english) Rails applications. See details for language support.
  Just dump in your plugins dir, set your language and you're done.

  Current version 0.9 (for Rails 1.2+, 2.0+), released Jan 13, 2008

• jRails

  jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails.

• Email Veracity Plugin

  A model validation plugin that checks not just email well-formedness but also that the domain name is valid and has an MX record.

• Acts As Threaded

  Great for creating threaded forums and other tree structures where performance is a concern. The nested_set model is insert/update heavy but the whole tree can be retrieved in order from the database with a single query.

• Globalize

  Transparent translation of models and views, with localization of numbers, dates and currencies.

• BetterNestedSet

  This plugin provides an ehanced acts_as_nested_set mixin, with move_to_child_of, level, ancestors, siblings...

• acts_as_textiled

  This simple plugin allows you to forget about constantly rendering Textile in your application.

• Savage Beast 2.0

  A Rails 2.0-compliant message board installable as a plugin

• acts_as_graph

  The acts_as_graph plugin extends ActiveRecord to implement a connected graph.

• GoogleMaps

  Easily use the Google Maps API from your application.