Favorite Rails Plugins

5 Mar 2007

Earlier this morning I wrote about using OpenID with the Acts as Authenticated plugin for the Rails plugin directory. Were you wondering why you’d want to have a login at the plugin directory? :)

Over the weekend I added the ability to add plugins to your own list of favorite plugins. While viewing any plugin at the site, you can click the “Add to favorites” link to add it to your list. Now it’s easy to keep track of the plugins you use on a regular basis — which is especially handy when starting new projects.

Thanks to Michael Trier and Mike Schwab for the suggestion. Stay tuned… I’ll be adding another feature soon that will make your list of favorite plugins extra handy.

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6 responses to “Favorite Rails Plugins”

Tomislav (14:00:01) :

Making people enter http:// when signing in with openid is against the openid specs. Please make a new field

Ben (14:06:21) :

Thanks for the catch. The change has been made.

Danger (15:52:48) :

Thanks for updating the plugin directory – it’s quite the useful tool.

I think DHH made a pretty good case for combining openid with regular logins (http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000606.html) based on requiring the protocol at the beginning. Personally I like that approach much better than having two separate fields.

Ben (16:06:41) :

@Danger

If you check out the latest changes to the plugin, you’ll see that DHH moved away from the one-field approach to the two-field approach.

My Favorite Rails Plugins » CRAZ8 (20:06:45) :

[...] Ben details what he’s done here [...]

Ben (22:14:53) :

Thanks to Tom’s comment, you now get an RSS feed of your favorite plugins for free. :)