Top Rated Plugins

• Attachment Fu

  attachment_fu is a plugin by Rick Olson (aka technoweenie) and is the successor to acts_as_attachment. To get a basic run-through of its capabilities, check out Mike Clark's tutorial http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu.

• Simple Captcha

  A full fledged captcha implementation with radom images.
  SimpleCaptcha is the simplest and a robust captcha plugin for RubyOnRails applications. Its implementation requires adding up a single line in views and in controllers/models. SimpleCaptcha is available to be used with Rails2.0 or above and also it provides the backward compatibility with previous versions of Rails. Read here(http://expressica.com/simple_captcha) for more details on implementation, usage and examples.

• Acts As State Machine

  Adds state machine functionality to any model. This makes it much easier to model complex constraints and behaviours.

• ACL System

  This plugin is designed to give you a flexible declarative way of protecting your various controller actions using roles. It's made to sit on top of any authentication framework that follows a few conventions.

• Redbox

  A Thickbox for Rails

• script.aculo.us Slider

  Helpers for the script.aculo.us slider control.

• Active Scaffold

  Generates a production ready, fully styled, interface for managing models

• Annotate models

  Add a comment summarizing the current schema to the top of each ActiveRecord model source file.

• Manage Fixtures

  A super lightweight tool used to export data into the test/fixtures directory.

• Flash MP3/Image/Media/FLV Player

  Create Flash MP3 Players, Image Slideshows, Media Players, and FLV Players in your views! Comes as a helper with necessary assets.

• Filter

  Filter let you specify common filtering options, in order to generate
  a filtered condition, useful for filtering from request params.

• Acts as Ferret

  Mixin that uses ferret to automatically build and maintain an index for fast fulltext search within the data stored in a Rails model.

• acts_as_commentable

  Add comments to any ActiveRecord model. acts_as_commentable comments can also function as notes, descriptions, definitions, etc...

• base-auth

  Best Authorization System Ever

• FCKeditor

  This installs the fckeditor along with a set of helpers to simplify its use. It comes complete with resource manager and spell check.

• Open Id Authentication

  Easily add OpenID authentication to your app.

• Acts as Viewed

  View count system for ActiveRecord models.

• model_auto_completer

  model_auto_completer provides autocompletion for models.

• acts_as_emailable

  A small plugin which sets up an Email model and the associations with the User model, so users can store emails against each other.

• Acts As Taggable

  Adds tagging or folksonomy support to any model.