Ruby on Rails Application Development and Involved Plug-ins
By: andola soft
Submitted: 2011-03-16 01:11:13 | Word Count: 351
Ruby on Rails has been a hot technology in the Open Source market for quite a few years now and Andolasoft.Inc is one of the best experts available in the world. Apart from being duty free, it has a strong programming community where Rails developers and contributors modify, customize and provide several plug-ins that can be integrated in any application. The plug-ins are also available free and you just need to download them from a remote location and they are ready to use. This plug-ins facilitates easy implementation of much functionality in real world web applications.
We at Andolasoft, extensively use an array of latest plug-ins in our applications to facilitate faster development process.
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Some popular Rails plug-ins used by Andolasoft's Ruby on Rails developer, are as follows:
Authologic: Authologic is a trouble-free authentication solution for Ruby on Rails applications. It can be used for authenticating User and Admin modules and it also creates appropriate session values and cookies for maintaining a session as well as destroying it.
Searchlogic: Search logic is a useful plug-in by which one can create an object that signifies a record in the database. It is directly associated with active record and facilitates easy ordering, searching and pagination of data; thereby handling multiple important functionalities.
Will Paginate: It is an extremely handy plug-in used for pagination of web applications. With this we can control the no of records that are fetched from the database model and displayed in a webpage.
Simple Captcha: Simple Captcha is a simple yet powerful plug-in for Rails. It just needs a single line of code for implementation. It consists of numerous Captcha images with varied level of complexities and it also works in multiple clustered servers.
Active Merchant: Active Merchant is a payment processing library for Rails. It is derived from the Rails powered ecommerce system Shopify. It can access different Payment Gateways with minimal internal APIs. It is ideal for e-commerce applications.
Feedback: It is a ready to use plug-in to create a feedback form that can be further customized. It creates an overlay Ajax based form which is accessible by a side screen tab or link.
