# RoR useful gems or plugins

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 4, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251 "2007-08-04T12:31:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251/1 "2007-08-04T12:31:27Z")

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Hi all!  
Please recommend me a list of useful gems of plugins that can help me  
in web development, for example easier build web UI, some controls or  
admin pages, etc…  
everything that can realy help

Tnx for answers

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**Author:** ![demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/demoversion)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251/2 "2007-08-04T13:07:12Z")

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Hi,

2007/8/4, Igor K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> Please recommend me a list of useful gems of plugins that can help me  
> in web development, for example easier build web UI, some controls or  
> admin pages, etc… everything that can realy help

Take a look at [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins). There you’ll  
find many useful plugins.

Lutz

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**Author:** ![demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/demoversion)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251/3 "2007-08-04T13:23:12Z")

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Lutz H. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2007/8/4, Igor K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):
> 
> > Please recommend me a list of useful gems of plugins that can help me  
> > in web development, for example easier build web UI, some controls or  
> > admin pages, etc… everything that can realy help
> 
> Take a look at [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins). There you’ll  
> find many useful plugins.
> 
> Lutz

I know about this web site,  
I just asking about - which plugins you used and for what?

Igor

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**Author:** ![demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@demoversion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/demoversion)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251/4 "2007-08-04T21:17:52Z")

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The gem collection depends on the problems that you try to solve.  
If we have a different problems than my collection will not be useful  
to you.  
You should get acquainted with all of them in general just to know to  
pick the right ones.

One that I recommend in any case is ruby-debug for the obvious  
reasons. 😉

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**Post date:** [August 4, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251/5 "2007-08-04T15:10:24Z")

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On Aug 4, 4:23 am, “Igor K.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Lutz
> 
> I know about this web site,  
> I just asking about - which plugins you used and for what?
> 
> ## Igor
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

google for it. Listing your installed plugins is a popular sport:

> **[Top 11 Rails Plugins](http://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/07/05/top-11-rails-plugins/)**
>
> I was explaining to a Java developer at work how you get soo much for free when working Ruby on Rails. I tried to explain the simplicity of ActiveRecord and the lack of getters and setters. I menti…

[http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2007/02/07/4-12-rails-plugins-i-use-in-every-project/](http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2007/02/07/4-12-rails-plugins-i-use-in-every-project/)

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**Post date:** [August 5, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-useful-gems-or-plugins/111251/6 "2007-08-05T12:12:48Z")

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Try

gem install rails-toolkit -y

for everything you need to get going with Rails.

And if I’m missing something, let me know!

NeilW

On Aug 4, 11:31 am, “Igor K.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
