FriendlyId is the “Swiss Army bulldozer” of slugging and permalink plugins for ActiveRecord. It allows you to create pretty URL’s and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for ActiveRecord models.
Allows you to create messages in the user interface, which the users can dismiss once read. The plugin stores the reference to the dismissed message in a cookie.
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library used in and sponsored by Shopify. It is written by Tobias Luetke, Cody Fauser, and contributors. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
An ActiveRecord interface for SimpleDB that takes care of offsets and padding, etc. Can be used as a drop in replacement for ActiveRecord in rails. DISCUSSION GROUP: http://groups.google.com/group/simple-record