# 150 Rails Plugins **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 25, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601 "2006-05-25T15:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/1 "2006-05-25T15:19:44Z")
The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support too: [http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/05/150-rails-plugins/](http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/05/150-rails-plugins/) – Benjamin C. [http://www.bencurtis.com/](http://www.bencurtis.com/) [http://www.tesly.com/](http://www.tesly.com/) – Collaborative test case management [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/) – Resources for the Rails community ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/2 "2006-05-25T15:26:14Z")
Nice work. Thank you. Michael ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/3 "2006-05-26T20:32:14Z")
> The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How many in 6 months? It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to read its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. Where is the good old “Less is more” gone? More is less. Alain ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/4 "2006-05-26T20:48:23Z")
I couldn’t disagree more. I take the number to mean that there is a super strong community of users who are willing to put the time into producing re-usable code. I’ve only written two small plugins, but I know I could have completed the task I was using them for much faster if I hadn’t taken the time to package the code into a plugin. Look at all the modules on CPAN. A lot of people still use perl today just for the fact that they have access to 1000’s (10,000s?) of modules. Does the number of perl modules make perl bloated? I think the fact there are a lot of plugins is great. It helps to keep the core rails framework from becoming too fat. This way you only have to use a plugin if you want. On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:29 +0200, Alain R. wrote: > More is less. > > Alain > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) Charlie B. [http://www.recentrambles.com](http://www.recentrambles.com) ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/5 "2006-05-26T20:54:45Z")
Hmm, “less is more” is all well and good for doing a specific job, but surely all this availability of code is a good thing. If you want to find something which does a job you need doing, you search for it, find it, install it and run it, so you don’t need to do it yourself. That is “less is more”. -N ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/6 "2006-05-26T20:51:30Z")
> > The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support > > I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How many in > 6 months? It is if you need something from one of them 🙂 > It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to read > its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. subscribe to the feed… I spend about 2 minutes a day… i don’t look at them that closely though… [http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyOnRailsPlugins](http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyOnRailsPlugins) -philip ---
**Author:** ![Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@Benjamin\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benjamin_C)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/150-rails-plugins/61601/7 "2006-05-26T21:01:22Z")
Alain R. wrote: > > The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support > > I wonder: is this really a good news: 150 plugins, and counting?! How > many in 6 months? > It would currently take 2.5 hour just to spend 1 minute per plugin to > read its name, description and very very briefly check its home site. > > Where is the good old > “Less is more” > gone? > > More is less. > > Alain I don’t have a problem with all these plugins. They solve the kind of problems they were designed to, add functionality and cover those 5% of edge cases. The problem comes when you have 10 plugins that do the same thing. I don’t think we’re there yet and with sites like Benjamin’s I don’t see it happening. Extracting code/logic from working applications and easily distributing it is turning out some great plugins.