Must-have plugins for Rails
When creating applications with Ruby on Rails, I come across the same plugins I need all the time: rich text editor, file uploads, stuff like that.
Here is a quick mashup of useful plugins you might want to check out for your Rails development:
Paperclip:
A very streamlined and easy to use file upload – there is also a bridge plugin that makes it work out nicely with ActiveScaffold. Get it here !
Gramos’ Easy FCKEditor:
Since tiny_mce is one hell of an editor for your web projects but does not work with ActiveScaffold, I have decided to switch back over to FCK for those AS-FCK-EasyUpload needs. Get it here !
Render Component fix for ActiveScaffold:
You may have noticed that the good guys over at the Rails core team have decided to kill render_component, which is especially nasty when it comes to using ActiveScaffold and has_and_belongs_to_many relations with subforms (guess what? they won’t work ^^). The solution is installing the render_component fix via:
ruby script/plugin install --force git://github.com/lackac/render_component.git -r rails-edge
FlickRaw:
Allows for accessing flickr data from your account via the flickr apis. I have tried quite some other plugins put flickraw is the most intuitive (and… well… it works). You can find a HOWTO and info here .
