"Web responses are volatile. Servers go down, API's change, responses change and every time something changes, your tests should fail. Mocking out web responses may speed up your test suite but the tests essentially become lies. Ephemeral Response encourages you to run your tests against real web services while keeping your test suite snappy by caching the responses and reusing them until they expire."

another nice helper for rails navigation

"jQuery-haml is a haml like language written in JSON. This allows for easy dom building so that web apps can do more work independent of the server for a better user experience. Based on haml from the ruby world."

jquery plugin template - cool!

another lightbox plugin for jquery

"Chili is the jQuery code highlighter plugin."

easily set js vars from your rails controllers

public/private key encryption for rails models

another ActiveRecord versioning plugin.

"vestal_versions keeps in the spirit of consolidating to one versions table, polymorphically associated with its parent models. But it goes one step further by storing a serialized hash of only the models’ changes. Think modern version control systems. By traversing the record of changes, the models can be reverted to any point in time.

And that’s just what vestal_versions does. Not only can a model be reverted to a previous version number but also to a date or time!"

Fork of Thoughtbot's Paperclip plugin with support for Mosso Cloud storage

Rails taggable style plugin. "Rather than tying functionality to a specific keyword (namely "tags"), acts as taggable on allows you to specify an arbitrary number of tag "contexts" that can be used locally or in combination in the same way steroids was used."

"acts_as_revisable enables revision tracking, querying, reverting and branching of ActiveRecord models. It does this while providing more Rails-like API than similar plugins. This includes extensions of standard ActiveRecord methods and numerous custom callbacks for the entire AAR life-cycle."

"Padlock allows easy object-based (rather than just global) role authorization functionality to ActiveRecord. It adds a "padlock" method to the controller that "locks" specified actions and gets "unlocked" only if passed a block that resolves to "true".

There are a lot of authorization plugins that make it easy to authorize a user for one or many actions based upon global roles.
However, I had the need to make it reasonably simple to authorize based upon roles associated with an object. (i.e. "admin" role on a Project.find(14))"

delay jobs for later execution in rails

another jquery carousel

great jQuery carousel plugin

great Rails plugin to provide default values for Active Record objects

rails plugin to dump db data yo yaml

"This rails plugin not only runs "EXPLAIN" before each of your select queries in development, but provides a small DIV in the rendered output of each page with the summary of query warnings that it analyzed."

I've used this interaction pattern before. nice to see it wrapped up in a plugin.

"Want to fire off a quick email from your Ruby script? Finding ActionMailer to be overkill, but Net::SMTP to be...um, underkill? Envious of PHP's mail(), which sends an email with a single function call?

Then take a deep breath, relax, and gem install pony."

a calendar plugin for rails

"What if you could have authentication up and running in minutes without having to run a generator? All because it’s simple, like everything else in rails. " - damn this looks nice. must try

"jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using the lighter jQuery library."

a nice collection of helpful rake tasks for rails apps

"Rolerequirement focuses on a simple approach to role-based authentication" - rails plugin

"Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript)"

lets you prevent user interaction with page or specific elements

"is a template engine 100% in JavaScript" - Similar to Prototype's Template class except it loads the template markup from a url instead of a js string. Helpful.

"Provides a history of attribute and association updates for models. This coincides with a versioning system (such as acts_as_versioned). When used in tandem, you get both a history of changes and a history of what changed."

scm status in project drawer, and more