Top Rated Plugins

• YM4R/GM

  Helps the use of Google Maps from Rails applications.

• Validates as email

  Validates emails against a regular expression that supposedly represents the syntax of RFC822 email addresses.

• Query String Action Caching

  Allows you to use action caching to cache url query strings such as “http://site/search?q=string&page=2&z=foo+bar”

• Ultrasphinx

  Ruby on Rails interface to the Sphinx full text search engine.

• Account Location

  Account location is a set of protected methods that supports the account-key-as-subdomain
  way of identifying the current scope. These methods allow you to easily produce URLs that
  match this style and to get the current account key from the subdomain.

• resources_controller

  NEWS: updated and betterer (Sept 07)

  make ActiveResource compliant controllers for your RESTful models in one line (including nested resources)

• Scaffolding Extensions

  Allows for customization and other improvements to the default scaffolding

• Acts_as_rateable By User

  Acts_as_rateable is a Ruby on Rails plugin which makes ActiveRecord models rateable through a polymorphic association and optionally logs which user rated which model.

• Simple Sidebar

  Makes component, partial or completely static sidebars as easy as a few class method declarations and a single view method. Flexible, simple, easy to cache.

• Verbal

  Enables converting numbers, currencies to American English and Polish

• BackgrounDRb

  A drb server for running background tasks from your rails app with hooks for progress bars and also in memory caching system.

• CalendarDateSelect

  A lightweight Ruby on Rails Date Picker / DateTime picker based on the prototype JavaScript framework.

• RedCloth Template

  Use Textile and Markdown syntax directly in your views

• Action cache

  Drop in replacement for the Action Cache to provide bug fixes, better cache keys, cache item expiry, runtime cache control and X-Sendfile support.

• Geokit-rails

  Official Geokit plugin for Rails/ActiveRecord. Provides location-based goodness for your Rails app. Requires the Geokit gem.

• Nested has_many_through

  Makes it possible to define has_many :through associations that
  go through other has_many :through associations, allowing them to span any number of tables.

• UploadColumn

  A plugin to the Ruby on Rails web development framework for easy uploading of files, especially images. UploadColumn makes it easy to store files to the filesystem and to manipulate them.

• RoleRequirement

  Role based security for acts_as_authenticated, without the mess

• User engine

  The UserEngine extends the LoginEngine with a very, *very* simple implementation of RBAC - role based access control.

• Webrat

  Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications