I was explaining to a Java developer at work how you get soo much for free when working Ruby on Rails. I tried to explain the simplicity of ActiveRecord and the lack of getters and setters. I mentioned the number of rails plugins that provided tagging, versioning, and commenting functionality. Out of that conversation I thought to write a list of the top Ruby on Rails plugins that I have found useful.<\/p>\n
Acts As Taggable<\/a><\/b> – Use this plugin to add tagging, folksonomy, support to your ActiveRecord models. You can search active records via tags.<\/p>\n Acts As Rateable<\/a><\/b> – This plugin allows ActiveRecord models to be rated between 1 upto some application specified number. This plugin will calcuate the average rating for a record.<\/p>\n Acts As Commentable<\/a><\/b> – With this rails plugin you can add comments to your ActiveRecord models.<\/p>\n Acts As Voteable<\/a><\/b> – With this plugin users can cast a vote for or against an ActiveRecord model. You can filter by votes, get a total vote count, etc.<\/p>\n Acts As Blog<\/a><\/b> – This plugin will help convert Textile, Markup, SmartyPants markup text to HTML. This plugin is useful in blog or wiki-like systems.<\/p>\n Acts As Versioned<\/a><\/b> – With this plugin you can manage different version of a ActiveRecord models. Use this plugin in version controlled applcitions like a wiki.<\/p>\n Acts As Bookmarkable<\/a><\/b> – This plugin allows user to bookmark any ActiveRecord model. In addition to bookmarking records you can combine this plugin with Acts As Taggable so that bookmarks can also be tagged.<\/p>\n Riff Rails<\/a><\/b> – This plugin functions as a diff tool for active records. You might find it useful to combine this plugin with Acts As Versioned.<\/p>\n Rails PDF<\/a><\/b> – This ActiveView plugin allows rails developers to create actions that produce PDF documents. This is a handy plugin for applications that want to generate reports.<\/p>\n Calendar Helper<\/a><\/b> – Another ActiveView plugin that will produce stylish calendars.<\/p>\n