Some useful plugins for RoR projects

Previously I used a few plugins in RoR projects including ScrumPad. On a more recent work, I found the following plugins to be really useful and easy to get started:-

1. I18n: Rails Internationalization

RailsCast at http://railscasts.com/episodes/138-i18n

Guides post at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html

2. Seed-fu: Initial data loading for application  (e.g. admin user, product categories)

Tutorial http://github.com/mbleigh/seed-fu A support is now built in for Rails 2.3.4

3. Thinking-sphinx: Full text search

RailsCast http://railscasts.com/episodes/120-thinking-sphinx

Tutorial http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/

4. Paperclip: File and image upload made hassle free

RailsCast http://railscasts.com/episodes/134-paperclip

Thoughtbot wiki http://wiki.github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip

If you looking for any of the above for features in your app, I suggest you give these plugins a try. It should be good for most of the apps unless you have some really unique needs.

Write in comments if you would like to share some other useful RoR plugins.