Rails Plugins
- RESTful Authentication
- Exception Notification
- Acts As State Machine
- Shoulda
- Account Location
I use all of these in 99% of all of my Rails projects. Each link provides detailed information regarding what they do and why they are awesome.
Hope that helped!
- http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate
- http://github.com/nex3/haml
- http://ennerchi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/jrails
- http://github.com/smtlaissezfaire/annotate_models (fork that supports rspec)
- http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec
- http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails
- http://github.com/joshknowles/rspec-on-rails-matchers
Gem or plugin, doesn't matter:
- haml
- shoulda
- factory_girl
- hubahuba
- hoptoad_notifier
- strip_attributes
- has_many_polymorphs
- will_paginate