What Rails plugins should I use?

Question

I learned the rails a couple of years ago out of interest, but now I am returning to it because I want to try to build a simple site for working with a draw with several bells and whistles. Many of the books on rails that I have studied give examples of how to create a shopping system or a user authentication system, but looking at websites there seem to be many plugins that provide this common functionality. However, the choice of plugins is very large, and it's hard for me to figure out which ones I should use.

So my question is this: what (if any) rails plugins would you recommend creating a rails site and why?

Answer 1

There are literally tons of rail plugins (and gems) to provide you with the necessary functionality, and I will talk about some of them that I have had experience with.

• Authlogic: This is a fantastic plugin. it gives you powerful authentication through before_filters on your pages and comes without any weirdness that I seem to notice in Restful Auth. You can find the code here and an example application here
• ActiveScaffold: This is great for creating an "admin interface." He is very powerful and looks very beautiful out of the box. The only drawback is that the official latest version does not yet support Rails 2.3.2. You can get here
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Answer 2

authlogic . authlogic restful_authentication. , paypal activemerchant.

Answer 3

I recommend the following:

• think-sphinx: for a really simple full-text search using mysql database.
  
• acts_as_permalinkable for seo friendly text urls.
  
• crummy for easy breading.
  
• delayed_job for delayed jobs like email notification.
  
• whenever for repetitive / cron jobs.