# Useful plugins for RadRails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914 "2006-08-08T18:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/1 "2006-08-08T18:03:13Z")
Hi Friends, Could anybody suggest me some nice and useful plugins for RadRails! It would be very great if we make list of all such plugins! 1)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 2)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 3)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 4)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 5)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 6)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 7)… Please fill above blanks and lets make a big list of it! ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/2 "2006-08-09T18:02:02Z")
No reply yet!, Why? ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/3 "2006-08-10T01:17:40Z")
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 18:02, Anil W. wrote: > Hi Friends, > Could anybody suggest me some nice and useful plugins for RadRails! > It would be very great if we make list of all such plugins! - Subclipse [http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Eclipse/JSEclipse/Overview/](http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Eclipse/JSEclipse/Overview/) - LogWatcher [http://graysky.sourceforge.net/](http://graysky.sourceforge.net/) - JSEclipse [http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Eclipse/JSEclipse/Overview/](http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Eclipse/JSEclipse/Overview/) Michael – Michael S. [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://www.schuerig.de/michael/](http://www.schuerig.de/michael/) ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/4 "2006-08-10T02:29:43Z")
On 8/8/06, Anil W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Friends, > Could anybody suggest me some nice and useful plugins for RadRails! It > would be very great if we make list of all such plugins! > 1)_ **acts\_as\_dropdown** _\_\_ > 2)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_annotate\_models > 3)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_dr\_nic\_magic\_models > 4)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_activeRBAC > 5)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_enforce\_column\_limits 6)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ scaffloding\_extensions ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/5 "2006-08-10T03:08:45Z")
Shameless plug: [http://www.muermann.org/gotofile](http://www.muermann.org/gotofile) Max ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/6 "2006-08-15T14:19:35Z")
And another “one”, actually it’s more of an IDE in itself with editors for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML. [http://www.aptana.com/](http://www.aptana.com/) Just after paying for a non-commercial license of JSEclipse, I’m unsure whether I like the Aptana JS editor better. Michael – Michael S. [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://www.schuerig.de/michael/](http://www.schuerig.de/michael/) ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/7 "2006-08-15T14:22:10Z")
On Aug 9, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Anil W. wrote: > 5)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > 6)\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > 7)… > > Please fill above blanks and lets make a big list of it! I don’t feel like Eclipse (RadRails) really needs a lot of plugins after you already have RadRails installed. I use viPlugin, but it’s not free and I’m a vi addict. ShellEd is nice for shell-script syntax hilighting. PHPeclipse is good if you want to do php scripts. That’s all I generally have in my stack, and none of them are particularly rails-centric. -Mat ---
**Author:** ![anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@anildigital](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anildigital)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/useful-plugins-for-radrails/101914/8 "2006-08-17T22:48:23Z")
I’ve been using standalone RadRails mostly because I didn’t want to have to install the beast that is Eclipse. But I find myself continually going back to JEdit (w/Ruby plugin) instead. One reason is all the other JEdit plugins that have helpful functionality especially on the html/css side of things. Plus JEdit is much faster and it has nice code-completion in Ruby, and I can do white text on black background color scheme which I haven’t figured out how to do in RadRails (whithout manually configuring all the colors used for syntax highlighting). On the other hand, RadRails has cool features such as switching from Controller to View, and the Subeclipse plugin is superb (JEdit has no plugin for SVN, only CVS). Data view is handy too, though JEdit has a SQL query tool too. (RadRails’ generators are also nifty too but I find that I hardly ever use them–it’s easy enough to use a console window if I really need to generate a new controller or model.) If I want to fire up my code and hack away for an hour, I almost always just use JEdit. If I’m in the initial stages of structuring my app, creating new tables, models, etc., then I’ll use RadRails. Ideally I’d love to see a cross between both. Anyway, I’m now starting to wonder if perhaps I shouldn’t go ahead and install the full Eclipse and then add on RDT and RadRails as plugins, so that I can then avail myself of other Eclipse plugins like Aptana (or JSEclipse) and other useful tools. Any opinions on this?