What rails plugins are good, stable and *really* enhance your code?

Question

Anyone have a list of rails plugins that are both stable and give you enough functionality to be worth the extra effort of supporting?

Edit:

I am mos

Answer 1

I can imagine why you are asking that. I used to work in a project with more than 20 plugins in use. Sure, it speeded up the development early on, but later debugging became difficult. Also, updating to a new version of Rails was a lengthy process.

My advice is that don't start using a plugin before have a reasonable understanding of how it works and of the trade-offs involved. For small plugins you should probably read the source code. For larger ones, see what other people are saying about them, when the plugin was updated the last time, etc.

For scanning popular plugins, see the most popular github projects. Quite a few of them are Rails plugins.