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We think that developers should do more than just use a platform. Intridea contributes to Rails directly and through open-source plugins.

Scalr

auto-scaling hosting envrironment built on EC2

Scalr is a complete turn-key hosting solution that's self-curing and self-scaling. Scale from 1 user to 100,000 with no server crashes, slow-downs or hiccups! Scale with reliability and security.

acts_as_readable Create a Generic Relationship of Items

ActsAsReadable allows you to create a generic relationship of items which can be marked as 'read' by users. This is useful for forums or any other kind of situation where you might need to know whether or not a user has seen a particular model.

acts_as_taggable_on acts_as_taggable_on ... on steriods

This plugin is heavily based on Acts as Taggable on Steroids by Jonathan Viney. While basic tagging functionality is handled expertly as well as tag cloud calculations, for many applications there may be a need to have several "tag fields" for a given model.

badger Simple Photo Badges

Badger is a simple Rails plugin that creates photo badges. A site often allows its users to upload a profile image. A profile image is just that, an image resized to fit in a predefined space to show up in the user’s profile.

beboist Rails Plugin for the Bebo Social API

The Beboist plugin provides a Rails interface to the Bebo Social Networking API. The plugin was designed from the ground-up to be flexible enough to accommodate any changes to the API, while at the same time providing a clean interface that will be familiar to most Rails developers.

browserized_styles Making cross-browser compatibility easier

Browserized Styles provides a dead simple way to create browser-specific CSS code for use in a Rails application. All you need to do is create a .css file targeted to a browser by appending an underscore and identifier to the end.

Fu-fu Rails Profanity Filter

Fu-fu is a Rails profanity filter that allows you to determine which words get filtered and how to handle the filtered word.

GitHub-Unfuddle Bridge GitHub-Unfuddle Bridge

A tool for anyone who has a GitHub account to automatically create Unfuddle changesets. The webhook is running off of Sinatra and is very lightweight.

needy_controllers DRY up commonly used controller and view tasks

Needy Controllers is a way to DRY up commonly used tasks from both controllers and views to save time and effort. It consists of a single call with a number of options.

openly_sociable Write Self-Contained OpenSocial-Enabled Widgets

'OpenlySociable Micro' is a clean, simple and concise way of writing OpenSocial widgets. It uses the Camping microframework and Mongrel to allow developers to write self-contained widgets for OpenSocial-enabled websites with none of the overhead of a full-blown Rails application.

Princely Rails Prince XML PDF Wrapper

A simple wrapper utilizing much of the code from the SubImage library but giving it better helpers and pluginizing its inclusion.

ruby-github

An API for accessing GitHub data.

SMS Fu Quickly & Easily Send Text Messages

SMS Fu gives you the ability to be able to send text messages from your Rails app in less than five minutes. There is no third-party gateway required as the phone number is converted into an e-mail address, which makes it deliverable to any phone.