View Extensions Plugins

Debug view helper: A plugin that makes it easy to raise a Smarty like popup dumping all assigns, sessions, parameter and flash variables for a view.
Rating: 4/5 (5 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Theme support: Add theme support to your application (Typo style). Includes support for liquid templates.
Rating: 4/5 (15 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
RTex: Adds support for .rtex templates which generate PDF files using pdflatex.
Rating: 4/5 (24 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Numeric spell: Spell out numbers in English!
Rating: 3/5 (7 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Safe render: Wrapper for render allowing inclusion of partials from templates or other shared views that don’t exist across all controllers.
Rating: 4/5 (5 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Markaby: Write your template code in Ruby using a Builder-style syntax.
Rating: 5/5 (15 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Label helpers: Helpers for generating label elements on forms.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Html output: Makes Rails tag helpers output HTML instead of XHTML.
Rating: 4/5 (11 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Syntax highlight: Adds a helper method to syntax highlight code.
Rating: 4/5 (8 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Widgets: These babies are a cross between helpers and partials. The idea is that they can encapsulate a piece of UI logic and template, sort of similar to the idea of components, only so much more lightweight.
Rating: 3/5 (9 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Upload progress: The upload progress plugin will alter your rails CGI handling to track the uploaded status of multipart/form encoded posts. The plugin will also add helper methods to create an AJAX updating progress bar.
Rating: 4/5 (16 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Inject: Provides helpers and javascript to do cross-domain AJAX-like calls.
Rating: 3/5 (3 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
Url for domain: Allows for specifying a subdomain to url_for.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 14 Apr 2006
LiveTree: DHTML tree widget that can load data asynchronously as-needed
Rating: 4/5 (5 votes)
Added on 18 Apr 2006
Liquid: Liquid is a non evaling template engine which looks good and can be rendered from the database.
Rating: 4/5 (12 votes)
Added on 18 Apr 2006
Rails PDF: This plugin allows for the easy generation of pdf documents through .rpdf views.
Rating: 3/5 (17 votes)
Added on 18 Apr 2006
Calendar Helper: Make a simple, customizable calendar.
Rating: 4/5 (31 votes)
Added on 27 Apr 2006
CSS Graphs: Make simple bar graphs with CSS.
Rating: 3/5 (5 votes)
Added on 27 Apr 2006
HTML Helpers: Allows you to encode/decode HTML entities in your views/helpers in a painless way.
Rating: 3/5 (7 votes)
Added on 5 May 2006
numbersToWords: Convert your integers and floats to english or Japaneese words, or translate it into American currency
Rating: 4/5 (4 votes)
Added on 10 May 2006
Rails Real-Time Form Validation Plugin: Rating: 2/5 (32 votes)
Added on 10 May 2006
script.aculo.us Slider: Helpers for the script.aculo.us slider control.
Rating: 4/5 (55 votes)
Added on 18 May 2006
Enhanced ActiveRecord Errors: Allows full customization of the errors generated using ActiveRecords error_messages_for method
Rating: 3/5 (7 votes)
Added on 22 May 2006
MasterView: MasterView is a ruby/rails optimized HTML/XHTML friendly template engine. Edit in WYSIWYG editor and still use partials and rails helpers.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 23 May 2006
Cartographer: Allows you to plop Google Maps down into your Rails app without knowing a lick of Javascript.
Rating: 3/5 (11 votes)
Added on 23 May 2006
Sub-List Form: A plugin that makes it easy to have dynamic lists of related models on a single editing page by presenting the user with a single page to edit/create the parent model as well a list of it’s children. (Uses AJAX)
Rating: 3/5 (8 votes)
Added on 23 May 2006
Remote Helpers: Provides gui feedback for any remote function calls.
Rating: 4/5 (8 votes)
Added on 24 May 2006
XHTML Content Type: xhtml_content_type allows you to set the default MIME type for rendered .rhtml views to application/xhtml+xml if the client supports it, and only falling back to text/html for older clients.
Rating: 3/5 (7 votes)
Added on 24 May 2006
Latex Render Helper: Adds a helper method to render a latex fragment into an image.
Rating: 4/5 (2 votes)
Added on 25 May 2006
Useless Ajax Mux-Demux: Allows you to multiplex a bunch of ajax requests into a single one to the server. These requests will be disptached on the server and the results collected as a single JSON string. This makes it very easy to update multiple sections of a page using a single ajax call.
Rating: 3/5 (6 votes)
Added on 25 May 2006
Simple Date Select: Use a text box instead of multiple select boxes for date and datetime fields in scaffolded forms.
Rating: 3/5 (12 votes)
Added on 25 May 2006
Cascading Stylesheets: Allows you to define application-wide, environment-specific (such as different backgrounds for UAT and production) and page-specific styles without needing to manually link each one.
Rating: 3/5 (6 votes)
Added on 26 May 2006
Cascading Javascripts: Allows you to define application-wide and page-specific javascript files without needing to manually include each one.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 26 May 2006
Exiguous formatter: A very simple formatter that adds paragraphs to newline separated blocks of text. It also includes Rubypants, which converts all types of quotes to better looking alternatives.
Rating: 2/5 (1 vote)
Added on 1 Jun 2006
Simplified form helper: Adds form helper methods that generate the field along with the label and the error message
Rating: 3/5 (3 votes)
Added on 4 Jun 2006
Window Helper: Opens a modal dialog containing the specified content.
Rating: 3/5 (7 votes)
Added on 5 Jun 2006
Unobtrusive Javascript for Rails: The Unobtrusive Javascript plugin for Rails allows you to attach Javascript behaviour and events to your page elements using pure Ruby, from within your controller or view, without clogging up your rendered HTML with Javascript - either inline or in the head of your document.
Rating: 4/5 (10 votes)
Added on 7 Jun 2006
in_place_controls: InPlaceControls is a Ruby on Rails plugin that creates "active" checkboxes, selects and radio buttons in the view that update your model via the builtin Rails in-place editing features.
Rating: 4/5 (6 votes)
Added on 8 Jun 2006
CssFormBuilder: A little plugin containing a form builder that uses css to produce tableless, lined-up forms.
Rating: 3/5 (16 votes)
Added on 21 Jun 2006
Simple Sidebar: Makes component, partial or completely static sidebars as easy as a few class method declarations and a single view method. Flexible, simple, easy to cache.
Rating: 4/5 (24 votes)
Added on 21 Jun 2006
Annotate Renders: Displays the file name of the rendered template in a comment.
Rating: 4/5 (2 votes)
Added on 22 Jun 2006
Magellan: Allows navigation logic to be abstracted from views/controllers as a way of managing complexity on larger projects.
Rating: 3/5 (4 votes)
Added on 28 Jun 2006
MicroID: Easily add your MicroID to your content to claim ownership.
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 3 Jul 2006
Datalist For: Aids in manipulating a list of ActiveRecord objects.
Rating: 3/5 (9 votes)
Added on 7 Jul 2006
YM4R/GM: Helps the use of Google Maps from Rails applications.
Rating: 4/5 (19 votes)
Added on 10 Jul 2006
ImageMagick for Rails: Provides an easy way to use ImageMagick commands to process images from a Rails template.
Rating: 4/5 (14 votes)
Added on 10 Jul 2006
RFPDF: Adds support for .rfpdf templates which generate PDF.
Rating: 3/5 (10 votes)
Added on 10 Jul 2006
Google Calendar Generator: Plugin generator for Ruby On Rails Allow to display google Calendar events in a Rails application.
Rating: 4/5 (8 votes)
Added on 19 Jul 2006
Tabular FormBuilder: A formbuilder for creating forms with tables.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 19 Jul 2006
InPlaceCompleter: This plugin provides two new Ajax-controls that makes it possible to have In-Place-Editing fields with either Local or Remote autocompletion.
Rating: 2/5 (6 votes)
Added on 22 Jul 2006
Tabnav: Just the easiest way to add tabbed navigations to your rails app!!!
Rating: 4/5 (31 votes)
Added on 23 Jul 2006
YM4R/Mapstraction: Helps the use of the Mapstraction JS library from Rails applications.
Rating: 4/5 (5 votes)
Added on 24 Jul 2006
Reloadable Helpers: Makes helper modules reloadable -- no more restarting the app!
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 2 Aug 2006
Multiple Select Helper: Adds alternative multiple selection lists for arrays, collections or trees.
Rating: 5/5 (9 votes)
Added on 7 Aug 2006
GoogleMaps: Easily use the Google Maps API from your application.
Rating: 4/5 (36 votes)
Added on 8 Aug 2006
Client-Side Validation: Mostly declarative client-side validation.
Rating: 2/5 (3 votes)
Added on 14 Aug 2006
Rails XLS: Generate XLS documents through the use of ".rxls" views.
Rating: 3/5 (8 votes)
Added on 18 Aug 2006
Simple RCSS: Allows you to use ERb in your stylesheets.
Rating: 4/5 (1 vote)
Added on 21 Aug 2006
Redbox: A Thickbox for Rails
Rating: 4/5 (25 votes)
Added on 23 Aug 2006
Markdown on Rails: Rails markdown template hander. Easily use markdown for your rails views.
Rating: 4/5 (14 votes)
Added on 3 Sep 2006
Nested Layouts: Rails plugin to allow nesting layouts in one another.
Rating: 5/5 (13 votes)
Added on 5 Sep 2006
FCKeditor: This installs the fckeditor along with a set of helpers to simplify its use. It comes complete with resource manager and spell check.
Rating: 5/5 (34 votes)
Added on 6 Sep 2006
Ajax Scaffold: This is a plugin version of the Ajax Scaffold generator
Rating: 4/5 (18 votes)
Added on 6 Sep 2006
Aim Status Helper: The aim status helper allows you to display if someone is online with the AOL Instant Message network.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 12 Sep 2006
Quicktime Helper: The quicktime helper gives you a standards compliant way to embed Quicktime in your page.
Rating: 4/5 (4 votes)
Added on 12 Sep 2006
State Select: Creates the select options for states in US, Canada, and India.
Rating: 5/5 (10 votes)
Added on 14 Sep 2006
WhiteList: This White Listing helper will html encode all tags and strip all attributes that aren't specifically allowed.
Rating: 5/5 (11 votes)
Added on 19 Sep 2006
multiple_auto_complete: Allows multiple auto_complete controls on a page
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 25 Sep 2006
Related select forms: Generates multiple related HTML select form tags, using JavaScript only (no AJAX callbacks needed)
Rating: 4/5 (20 votes)
Added on 2 Oct 2006
associated_list: If you are producing a form for a rails model object and it has a “has_many” or “has_and_belongs_to_many” relationship of some other simple objects (which can be identified by name), then this plugin might be for you. It uses a select box to add items to the list, and delete buttons to remove them. It’s all client side, using hidden fields, until you submit the form and it saves the relationships in your model.
Rating: 4/5 (2 votes)
Added on 9 Oct 2006
BBCodeizer: Translates BBCode to HTML
Rating: 3/5 (11 votes)
Added on 11 Oct 2006
datepicker_engine: Helpers for creating datepicker boxes
Rating: 4/5 (6 votes)
Added on 13 Oct 2006
Error Messages For: This is a rails plugin that overrides the default error_messages_for helper and extends it to make it useful.
Rating: 4/5 (16 votes)
Added on 17 Oct 2006
Button Labels: Add labels to your radio buttons.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 21 Oct 2006
Correct number units: Corrects Numeric extensions like kilobyte to measure in proper units and adds kibibyte, mebibyte (and so on) to follow the standard.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 31 Oct 2006
Simply Helpful: Various helpers for views
Rating: 4/5 (18 votes)
Added on 8 Nov 2006
confirmation_field: Form helpers which make validates_ confirmation_ of view logic real easy.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 9 Nov 2006
plugin_routing: Adds the ability for plugins to share routes and views with the rest of your application.
Rating: 4/5 (1 vote)
Added on 24 Nov 2006
MinusMOR: Adds a new template type, .ejs, that works like RJS but lets you just write JavaScript and ERB.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 25 Nov 2006
Flash MP3/Image/Media/FLV Player: Create Flash MP3 Players, Image Slideshows, Media Players, and FLV Players in your views! Comes as a helper with necessary assets.
Rating: 5/5 (48 votes)
Added on 15 Dec 2006
select_autocompleter: Extends the Autocompleter control of Rails to popup a select element instead of a list and return a value (id) field.
Rating: 2/5 (8 votes)
Added on 15 Dec 2006
CSS Dryer: Converts DRY, nested stylesheets into CSS.
Rating: 5/5 (15 votes)
Added on 19 Dec 2006
RedCloth Template: Use Textile and Markdown syntax directly in your views
Rating: 4/5 (2 votes)
Added on 22 Dec 2006
Form Helper CSS: Adds CSS classes to all form elements created by any helpers
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 25 Dec 2006
Aim Status Helper 2: Query and display status of a member of the AIM network with icons or text. Updated version!
Rating: 4/5 (1 vote)
Added on 28 Dec 2006
on_idle: Adds javascript to views that fires when user is either idle or wakes up.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 1 Jan 2007
SimpleObject: A simple object/embed tag helper for any media type.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 12 Jan 2007
ErbBuffer: Nested Output Buffering for ERB Templates in Rails
Rating: 3/5 (5 votes)
Added on 14 Jan 2007
SimplyPresentable: SimplyPresentable is a plugin for that introduces the idea of presenters to rails.
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 16 Jan 2007
model_auto_completer: model_auto_completer provides autocompletion for models.
Rating: 5/5 (35 votes)
Added on 18 Jan 2007
Form Label Helper: The plugin introduces 3 helpers label_tag, label_for and f.label (FormBuilder helper)
Rating: 5/5 (7 votes)
Added on 20 Jan 2007
Elemental: Call XHMTL elements as methods in your RHTML: <%= p @item.content, :id => @item.id %> You can use blocks, as well.
Rating: 5/5 (9 votes)
Added on 21 Jan 2007
Simple Ujs: Simple-Ujs is a plugin that turns all of your view into Unobstrusive Javascripts views. You don't need to learn any new syntax or a whole bunch of new helpers, you have just to call 1 helper (<%= flush_ujs_handlers_list %>) at the bottom of your master templates as close to the closing tag.
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 24 Jan 2007
action_mailer_layouts: Now you can use layouts with your ActionMailer templates.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 4 Feb 2007
Streamlined: Declarative views for your application
Rating: 4/5 (10 votes)
Added on 8 Feb 2007
templated_form_builder: This plugin provides a FormBuilder for Rails which allows you to specify the appearance of form helpers through partials. Also, it creates instant label tags just for you!
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 10 Feb 2007
inherit_views: Your views can be inherited according to the controller hierarchy (customisable). Also supports render_parent in views
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 23 Feb 2007
CSS Naked Day: Automatically turns off your CSS on Naked Day (http://naked.dustindiaz.com/)
Rating: 3/5 (4 votes)
Added on 2 Apr 2007
ActiveForm: ActiveForm is a Rails plugin which provides a DSL for defining complete XHTML forms with validation. You can compose your own widgets and (nested) form sections from basic elements and output is fully and easily customizeable.
Rating: 4/5 (9 votes)
Added on 2 Apr 2007
Gravatar: The gravatar plugin makes it easy to display gravatars (globally-recognized avatars) for your users. For example, in your views, you can use the following code to create the full img tag for the given user's gravatar: <%= gravatar_for @user %>
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 9 Apr 2007
Number to English: This plugin converts fixed numbers into plain English strings
Rating: 3/5 (2 votes)
Added on 12 Apr 2007
Yahoo Grids Helper: A view helper plugin for Yahoo Grids (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/)
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 21 Apr 2007
Smart-Form 1.0: Creates nicely laid out form fields for a model, including it's columns and association reflections; The last form plugin you may ever need!
Rating: 5/5 (29 votes)
Added on 25 Apr 2007
Painless PNG: The Painless PNG plugin allows your Rails application to support PNG images with transparencies for Internet Explorer 5.5+ through 6.x without changing existing code.
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 6 May 2007
Headliner: Headliner DRYs up your page titles.
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 6 May 2007
Barcode Generator: Barcode generator makes generating/displaying bar-codes for any alphanumeric ids, a piece of cake. It uses free true-type barcode (code39) fonts and RMagick to create barcode images
Rating: 4/5 (11 votes)
Added on 7 May 2007
lilu: View subsystem that allows to keep pure HTML for views
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 11 May 2007
Tourist: Helping you find your way in a foreign app.
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 19 May 2007
FlashObject: Is an helper that implement the http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject javascript.
Rating: 5/5 (114 votes)
Added on 23 May 2007
Stickies: An interface for displaying messages, similar to what you’re doing now with flash[:notice] or flash[:message], only much better.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 23 May 2007
Calendariffic 0.1.0: The Calendariffic plugin allows the user to create a DHTML pop-up calendar and an associated text-box that displays the selected date using 1 Rails function from within a .rhtml file.
Rating: 5/5 (14 votes)
Added on 1 Jun 2007
LightBox Helper: LightBox Helper is a small but beautifull helper that automatize the process for include LightBox on our pages.
Rating: 5/5 (91 votes)
Added on 5 Jun 2007
Radiograph: Exposes Ultraviolet, a syntax highlighting library, to Rails views.
Rating: 4/5 (5 votes)
Added on 7 Jun 2007
DownloadLinkHelper: DownloadLinkHelper is a small plugin that adds a new download_link_tag that can be called from within your views. It then generates the link along with the file-size in parenthesis.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 8 Jun 2007
LabelHelper: Gives you a flexible label helper method so you can stop repeating yourself when writing forms.
Rating: 3/5 (4 votes)
Added on 14 Jun 2007
Railscrumb: This plugin provides a way to use breadcrumbing without being reliant of the models in rails.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 16 Jun 2007
Multisite: Allows a single app to selectively override templates on a per-site basis.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 26 Jun 2007
Gravatar tag: Gravatar offers service to keep your globally recognizable avatars (gravatar). This tiny plugin offers rails view helper to embed gravatars in your views. It can also be used in blog, forums applications to insert gravatar to be visible instead of email.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 4 Jul 2007
google_analytics: Conditionally outputs javascript snippet for Google Analytics, based on Rails environment.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 23 Jul 2007
Improved in_place_editor: Drop-in replacement for the rails version of in_place_editor. Allows all current and new options of the Ajax.InPlaceEditor control to be specified. Also works with the new rewrite of the Ajax.InPlaceEditor control.
Rating: 4/5 (4 votes)
Added on 23 Jul 2007
Shortcuts: Keyboard shortcuts for your HTML views. Bind Navigation, Ajax calls and arbitrary Javascript functions to keys.
Rating: 3/5 (2 votes)
Added on 23 Jul 2007
rdialog: Simple popup dialog with image border.
Rating: 4/5 (8 votes)
Added on 26 Jul 2007
Templated Attribute: Allows you to declare that certain attributes in your model are "templated." A templated attribute has a helpful initial valueï¿½kind of like a default valueï¿½except that these aren't valid data or saved in the database. They're suggestions to the user about the expected formatting or content of a field.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 30 Jul 2007
twelve_hour: Customize time_select method helper to display 12 hour style time.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 1 Aug 2007
el-grillo: El Grillo is a Ruby on Rails plugin that helps you show tabular data in a simple way
Rating: 5/5 (8 votes)
Added on 10 Aug 2007
todo_list: It creates list of tasks, notes, ideas, .. from the code
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 16 Aug 2007
Time Picker: Need a concise time only picker, instead of the multiple select fields in Rails? This Rails plugin will provide a simple time picker. Very useful in circumstances where you want a select list of times, and you do not care about the date.
Rating: 2/5 (7 votes)
Added on 17 Aug 2007
HAML: Haml and Sass are templating engines for the two most common types of documents on the web: HTML and CSS, respectively.
Rating: 5/5 (19 votes)
Added on 1 Sep 2007
Themer: Implements per-request template lookups without hacking the Rails internals
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 7 Sep 2007
Nofollow Links: This is a simple plugin that will add a before_save callback to add nofollow to all links within the given fields.
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 9 Sep 2007
embedded_javascripts: Best way to integrate your pure js in rails and pass vars in erb mode.
Rating: 5/5 (86 votes)
Added on 25 Sep 2007
menu_helper: Adds a helper method for generating a menubar.
Rating: 4/5 (1 vote)
Added on 27 Sep 2007
send_cached: Makes it easier to use decide when to send a 304 response with send_data and send_file.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 27 Sep 2007
styled_inputs: Adds automated styling of input fields with css classes.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 27 Sep 2007
table_helper: Adds a helper method for generating HTML tables from collections.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 27 Sep 2007
tiny_mce_helper: Adds helper methods for creating the TinyMCE initialization script.
Rating: 3/5 (6 votes)
Added on 27 Sep 2007
Malline: Malline is a smart, full-featured template system. All templates written with it are pure ruby.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 15 Oct 2007
Timeout cache expire: Allows cached to be expired on a desired future timed value.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 22 Oct 2007
Labeling Form Helper: Adds a :label option to form helpers, with an often appropriate default behavior kicking in with no extra options when using LabelingFormBuilder instead of the default builder.
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 24 Oct 2007
Less Js Routes: Have you ever wanted to use named routes in your JavaScript? So have I. Now you can. Less Js Routes will generate a JavaScript file with functions that give you the path to the route and functions that will call these routes using ajax (uses jQuery or Prototype).
Rating: 4/5 (2 votes)
Added on 24 Oct 2007
mooverails: Mootools + Ruby on Rails
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 25 Oct 2007
Html4ify: Get rid of self-closing tags for HTML 4 compliance.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 25 Oct 2007
CalendarDateSelect: A lightweight Ruby on Rails Date Picker / DateTime picker based on the prototype JavaScript framework.
Rating: 4/5 (18 votes)
Added on 29 Oct 2007
Bundle-fu: CSS/JS asset bundling in 10 seconds or less!
Rating: 5/5 (6 votes)
Added on 29 Oct 2007
Checkbox Select: Checkbox Form helper for has_and_belongs_to_many relationships.
Rating: 3/5 (4 votes)
Added on 5 Nov 2007
auto_complete: Official Rails autocomplete plugin
Rating: 3/5 (13 votes)
Added on 6 Nov 2007
12_hour_time_select: am pm
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 8 Nov 2007
jRails: jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails.
Rating: 4/5 (21 votes)
Added on 15 Nov 2007
ImageBundle: ImageBundle, a Rails plugin to automatically bundle local images into CSS sprites.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 16 Nov 2007
Unstatic: Allows you to define dynamically-editable content areas in your existing templates through a simple helper method.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 16 Nov 2007
content_for_once: content_for only once.
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 17 Nov 2007
sortable-list: A simple plugin to make it easy to create a sortable table of information
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 20 Nov 2007
Language Select: An option select for commonly spoken languages.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 20 Nov 2007
relative time helpers: Display relative time in words to your users, like Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow, etc...
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 26 Nov 2007
TextAreaWithStatus: This plugin is extending builtin text_area and text_area_tag helpers with the ability to display chars left up to a specified limit.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 4 Dec 2007
layout-helper: A plugin with a few helper functions that will reduce help build your layouts and reduce redundancy.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 5 Dec 2007
Unobtrusive Javascript Date-Picker: A helper for creating a date or date-time picker that adds a clickable calendar image that will bring up a calendar picker if javascript is available.
Rating: 4/5 (6 votes)
Added on 7 Dec 2007
selector: A mixin for your helpers to help you define helper functions which will generate dropdowns and multi-select lists.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 8 Dec 2007
SuperInPlaceControls: Drop-In replacement for Rails stock in_place_editors.
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 12 Dec 2007
rupdf: Simple PDF reporting rails plugin built on top of ruport. Requires Ruport gem install ruport This plugin provides a simple method of generating pdfs. Please refer to the API Documentation in rdoc/ to see the methods available. This is designed to render pdfs with a layout comprising of a header, body and a footer.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 15 Dec 2007
YUI Pages: YUI Pages is a plugin to easily write views and layouts leveraging the YUI Grids CSS system.
Rating: 5/5 (3 votes)
Added on 16 Dec 2007
Social Welfare: Update children objects from their parent's view.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 17 Dec 2007
js-sound: RJS Generator for Script.aculo.us sound.js Library
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 29 Dec 2007
Mappa: Mappa - Google Maps GMap2 plugin
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 1 Jan 2008
Acts as menu role: ActsAsMenuRole simplifies the user's role-based menus creation.
Rating: 4/5 (3 votes)
Added on 2 Jan 2008
Will Paginate Liquidized: This plugin allows to use will_paginate with Liquid templates.
Rating: 5/5 (7 votes)
Added on 7 Jan 2008
Ext Scaffold Generator: The Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin can be viewed as a drop-in replacement for Rails' standard Resource Generator. Accepting the very same options, it will generate views using data grid and form components from the Ext JS Javascript GUI framework as well as a controller acting as an Ext-compatible JSON web service. The generated code can be used as a starting point for further implementation and outlines solutions on how to integrate the Ext JS library with Rails as a backend.
Rating: 3/5 (13 votes)
Added on 18 Jan 2008
filtered_list: Rails plugin used to emulate an Excel feature where a dropdown is at the top of a table and contains all the unique values for a column. Select a value from the dropdown and the table will only show items that have the matching value.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 20 Jan 2008
Streamlined_edge: Streamlined brings the declarative goodness of ActiveRecord to the view layer. If youâ€™re up for livinâ€™ on the edge, Streamlined has been enjoying sweet bliss with Rails 2.0.2 for a few weeks now.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 1 Feb 2008
pretty_accessible_form: This is based on A List Apart: Articles: Prettier Accessible Forms (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms) and provides helper methods for building prettier accessible forms.
Rating: 4/5 (2 votes)
Added on 6 Feb 2008
Yacaph: Yacaph (pronouced Yakaf) is "Yet Another CAPtcha Helper" for Rails. The difference with this one is that it doesn't need to generate images on the fly nor use any session data: it's completely stateless. Furthermore, the images (generated off-line) blend nicely even with changing background colors.
Rating: 4/5 (1 vote)
Added on 7 Feb 2008
CSS Graphy: Another pure-CSS bar graphing view-helper plugin.
Rating: 4/5 (4 votes)
Added on 13 Feb 2008
Navigation Helper: Provides an easy way to generate links for an application. It supports links that must first be authenticated, subtitles, hover text, and keeps track of the current tab/link/section you're on.
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 15 Feb 2008
date_time_text_field_helpers: Date/time form helpers which use text fields for date components instead of the select dropdowns which the standard rails date helpers use.
Rating: 4/5 (4 votes)
Added on 21 Feb 2008
pic_lens_lite_helper: A rails plugin for PicLens Lite
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 22 Feb 2008
Fieldset Helper: Block method for creating the fieldset tag with or without a legend.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 23 Feb 2008
SoundManager2: A Rails wrapper around the SoundManager2 Javascript API. Install, run the generator, add two lines of code, and BANG! You're playing MP3s from your Rails app.
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 7 Mar 2008
AccessibleFormBuilder: Builds upon pretty_accessible_form.
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 9 Mar 2008
refresh_view: Allows a user to refresh the rails generated views after making modifications to the model.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 17 Mar 2008
Stylesheets for All: Set "media=all" by default for CSS link tags.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 18 Mar 2008
Image Tag Silent Alt: Set image_tag's alt attribute to an empty string instead of the image filename.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 18 Mar 2008
SMILE Timeline: Makes it easy to support SIMILE timelien viewer
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 22 Mar 2008
MapLayers: MapLayers makes it easy to integrate a dynamic map in a Rails application. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from many different data sources. With MapLayers you can display and publish ActiveRecord models with geographic data.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 23 Mar 2008
Blueprint Accessible Forms: A form builder plugin which produces non-table grid layouts, in conjunction with the Blueprint CSS Framework.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 28 Mar 2008
Checkbox-select: Select form element replacement
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 3 Apr 2008
acts_as_node: This is Rails plugin for graph drawing of models. It enables you render a graph drawing (with 2 different layouts, available) based on the relationships of the models underneath.
Rating: 2/5 (3 votes)
Added on 4 Apr 2008
better_partials: Wraps render :partial to make dealing with partials much easier. <%= partial "form", :f => f %> instead of <%= render :partial => "form", :locals => {:f => f} %>
Rating: 5/5 (7 votes)
Added on 5 Apr 2008
Dojo Helpers: A plugin designed to make it easier to use the dojo toolkit javascript library with your rails application.
Rating: 3/5 (1 vote)
Added on 14 Apr 2008
JavaScript Fu: Helpers, rake tasks, and rspec matchers for JavaScript development.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 17 Apr 2008
inputs_with_class: Automatically applies best-practice css naming conventions to rails generated form elements. Easily configurable.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 17 Apr 2008
Input CSS: Provides a default CSS class on all INPUT fields based on the type attribute.
Rating: 3/5 (2 votes)
Added on 19 Apr 2008
Javascript Queue Spring: Lightweight plugin to declare Javascript at any point during a render pass, and then automatically output all that JS together after the body tag is closed.
Rating: 5/5 (2 votes)
Added on 21 Apr 2008
show_hidden_fields: Easily hide/unhide hidden fields during development.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 29 Apr 2008
Endless page: When user scrolls down on webpage with big list you can catch the moment and download/append new items to the list if you see that user is close to the end of list. This plugin makes it easy to implement.
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 4 May 2008
rails_iui: iPhone development for rails, wrapping the iUI toolkit
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 5 May 2008
ResourcefulViews: ResourcefulViews aims to take RESTful conventions beyond controllers and into views by extending the 'map.resources' method to install a comprehensive vocabulary of application-specific, resource-oriented view helpers
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 5 May 2008
smart_field_constraints: Intelligently applies a maxlength attribute for text fields based on column constraints and validations.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 7 May 2008
javascript_auto_include: This plugin will automatically include javascript files that correspond to a view or controller
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 13 May 2008
ERB trim mode: Additional functionality to ERB template system, which allows code processing for lines beginning with '%'.
Rating: 3/5 (2 votes)
Added on 27 May 2008
GeoTools: Easy GPS-style latitudes and longitudes in Rails forms.
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 30 May 2008
JSMask: JS Mask JavaScript framework, version 0.1
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 3 Jun 2008
system_messages: Displays notifications in a view globally, for a specific object, or for a block.
Rating: 5/5 (4 votes)
Added on 3 Jun 2008
negative_captcha: Stops bots from submitting forms without the standard image captcha- indeed, without any user inconvenience at all.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 11 Jun 2008
Word Breaker: These are set of helpers to enable you to solve a unique wordwrap problem using the non XHTML compatible wbr tags gmail style.
Rating: 5/5 (5 votes)
Added on 18 Jun 2008
tiny_mce_plus: TinyMCE editor with image upload
Rating: 0/5 (0 votes)
Added on 20 Jun 2008
Google Ajax Libraries API: Implements the Google AJAX Libraries API as a Rails plugin.
Rating: 5/5 (1 vote)
Added on 27 Jun 2008

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