Rails Plugins [closed]

Answer 1

• RESTful Authentication
• Exception Notification
• Acts As State Machine
• Shoulda
• Account Location

I use all of these in 99% of all of my Rails projects. Each link provides detailed information regarding what they do and why they are awesome.

Hope that helped!

Answer 2

Some already listed in other answers that don't need repeating plus:

• acts_as_categoy
• paperclip
• open_id_authentication
• ZenTest gem

Answer 3

Gem or plugin, doesn't matter:

• haml
• shoulda
• factory_girl
• hubahuba
• hoptoad_notifier
• strip_attributes
• has_many_polymorphs
• will_paginate

Answer 4

• http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate
• http://github.com/nex3/haml
• http://ennerchi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/jrails
• http://github.com/smtlaissezfaire/annotate_models (fork that supports rspec)
• http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec
• http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails
• http://github.com/joshknowles/rspec-on-rails-matchers

Answer 5

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