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wycats edited this page Sep 14, 2010 · 4 revisions

Mission Statement: To serve as a testbed for the cutting edge of Ruby on Rails. To close the gap between Rails’ core and the common usage of Rails, so people don’t have to constantly rebuild a simple CMS for every project.

General Controller Improvements

Rails::ActionArgs
Rails::APIVersions
Rails::ParamsModel
ActionController::ExplicitRender
InheritedResources
~~Astaire~~

Testing Improvements

~~RSpec~~
Capybara
Autotest with Watchr
DM::Sweatshop

View Improvements

SimpleForm
~~Haml~~
~~Rails::Haml (Generators)~~
~~Sass~~
Compass

Model Improvements

~~DataMapper~~
DO

Mailer Improvements

~~MailForm~~

Overall Infrastructure Improvements

~~Devise~~
Simple Authz Solution
Rack::Cache
Rails::Admin
Memoized I18N Backend
Rack::Offline
Rack::MobileDetect
~~jQuery UJS~~

Development Mode Improvements

Rack::Bug
ActionController::Exceptions
Wirble
LookSee
LiveConsole
Rails Best Practices

Security Improvements

Rails::ParamSafety

Common Needs

PDF Generation (Saucerly Clone, Prawn)
Background Tasks (delayed_job)
Pagination
Documentation (YARD)
Attachments (CarrierWave)
Image Resizing and Thumbnailing (RMagick, works with CarrierWave)