Practical Rails Plugins

Introduction to Plugins for Ruby on Rails.- What are Plugins?.- Example - Imageboard/Discussion Service.- Handling User Logins with Restful Authentication.- Enforcing Privilege Separation with Authorization.- Uploading Images and Generating Thumbnails with Attachment Fu.- Easily Add Lightboxes to a Photo Site.- Paginating Resources in Forums.- Login and a News Feed Sidebars with Simple Sidebar.- Example - Recipe Swapping Social Network.- Adding OpenID Authentication as an Extra Login Option.- Build a 5-Star Ajax Rating System with Acts As Rateable (Model Enhancement).-Add Web 2.0 Tagging to your Model with Has Many Polymorphs.- Make Use of Amazon Product Data in your Models.- Catching Validation Errors with Assert Valid Markup.- Improving Overall Database Performance with SQL Session Store.- Example - MP3 Download Service and Band Showcase.-Build a Band MP3 Player with Flash Media Player.- Non-Evaling User Templates with Liquid.-Payment Processing with Active Merchant.- Using BackgrounDRb for Long-Running Tasks.-Better JSON output for Web Services and Mashups with Jsonifier.- Easily Add Tabbed Navigation.-Browser-Based Testing with Selenium On Rails.- WYSIWYG Resume Editing with FCKEditor and In-Place Controls.-Validate Your Data Using a Variety of Rails Plugins.- Quick PDF Generation using RTex.-Search Blogs and News With a Powerful Full Text Search Engine.- Internationalize your Application with Globalize.-Easily Embed CMS Capabilities with Comatose.- Example - Antique Search System.- Zero-Work Admin Interfaces with ActiveScaffold.- Version Your Store Inventory with Acts As Versioned.-Automatically Suggest Search Keywords with Acts As Suggest.- Radius-Based Location Searches with ZipCodeSearch.- Generate Bar Graphs with CSS Graphs.- Test Code Coverage with Rails RCov.-Leverage Memcache for a Performance Boost with Cache Fu.- Writing Your Own Plugins.- How to Create and Distribute a Plugin.-Common Strategies for Extending Rails With Plugins.