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  • Acts As Video Fu new Rails plugin that easily allows you to show video streams on your site.
  • Query Reviewer new 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.
  • Historic Routes new A rails plugin that automatically generates a previous_path for routes with a *history parameter.
  • Activity Streams new ActivityStreams is a Rails Plug-in providing a customizable framework for cataloging and publishing user activity and social objects.
  • Mootool Smoothgallery new Uses JonDesign's (Jonathan Schemoul) SmoothGallery 2.0, a javascript gallery and slideshow system. http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/
  • Johnny Cache new Allows for a time_to_live option on cached ERB fragments by inserting a timestamp into the HTML.
  • Git Plugins new A simple Ruby on Rails plugin to keep track of plugins maintained in external Git repositories
  • Server Config new A simple Ruby on Rails plugin to help separate sensitive configuration such as server passwords from your code.
  • Clear Helper new A Rails plugin to simplify generation of "clear" divs.
  • Git PNG Optimise new A Rails plugin / Git hook that optimises PNGs upon adding or updating.
  • XML Protected new Keeps specified attributes of a model out of to_xml. Do so by aliasing to_xml, and automatically sending in the correct :excludes to the original to_xml method.
  • Default Value For new Provides a way to specify default values for ActiveRecord models
  • Grouped Scope new Extends has_many associations to group scope.
  • Named Scope new A thorough backport of NamedScope that can be used with Rails 1.2.6 and 2.0.4
  • Tank Engine A Rails toolkit for creating applications optimized for Mobile Safari, iPhone, and the iPhone touch. Based on the iUI look and feel library.
  • Nice Url This acts_as extension provides the capabilities for creating a nice url based on an attribute of the current object. You can set / unset the object id in front of the URL and choose the object attribute to use to generate the URL.
  • Gps Fu his is a Location Based Services API for Ruby and for Ruby on Rails. It currently supports translation of MyGPSId address_ids into geocoded data. Queries will return Hpricot documents that you can use to find address elements in the return packet. You can also pass those Hpricot documents to a...
  • Noisy Plugins Looking at HTML source, it can be hard to figure out which partial is generating bad code, and why. This code outputs HTML comments at the start and end of partial rendering, giving the path to the partial.
  • Configuration File Plugin Plugin to handle configuration files in Rails
  • White List Objectified Objectified version of Technoweenie's white_list plugin for Rails. Implemented as a class, not as a helper.