Plugin Tricks 
susegeek.com —
Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.
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susegeek 2 months ago
Posted by susegeek 2 months ago 
intridea.com —
Let's face it, iPhone interfaces are awesome, but they can only cater to a fraction of the mobile market. What are you to do if you want to satisfy the rest of the mobile world? Mobile Fu helps to make this job much easier by automatically detecting mobile devices that access your Rails application.
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aroedl 4 months ago
Posted by aroedl 4 months ago
HowFlow —
The Ruby on Rails plugin userstamp automatically sets created_by and updated_by and works much like the ActiveRecord::Timestamp module (created_at and updated_at). But when you try to save a record on the Rails console, it suddenly returns an error.
Posted by aroedl 5 months ago
Posted by aroedl 5 months ago
HowFlow —
CipherMail provides a safe alternative to the mail_to helper by hiding mailto links from e-mail harvesting bots. The generated output is completely obfuscated by a 1024 bit random key.
Posted by aroedl 5 months ago
Posted by aroedl 5 months ago 
pragprog.com —
This is actually a very old trick, because annotate_models is one of the older Rails plugins. On the other hand, I realized that only a few people have heard of it.
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
github.com —
Temporarily delete records from AR models: This plugin provides the ability to soft delete ActiveRecord models. When models are destroyed, they will be archived into a special deleted table. They can later be restored easily.
Posted by flood 6 months ago
Posted by flood 6 months ago
HowFlow —
This might be interesting if you get the error message "uninitialized constant TagsController" while using the acts_as_taggable_redux rails plugin.
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
railscasts.com —
If you're running a production site, it's a good idea to record all exceptions which occur. See how to set up a notification system which does that in this episode. Yet another great railscast.
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
extjswithrails.com —
This Ruby on Rails plugin from Steffen Hiller provides an easy way to order ActiveRecord attributes for using them for csv exports or automated table generation.
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
expressica.com —
AutoTags, is a plugin for RubyOnRails applications to automatically generate the relevant tags for the provided content by making use of the Yahoo term extraction api. Its quite simple to use and provide easy integration with ActiveRecord. The plugin is very useful for social applications, community websites and all those networking applications where there is a scope of user generate content t...
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
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