This is a list of 3rd party Helpers. Helpers are something like macros for your views.
- PaginationHelper – Paginate large tables
- SortHelper – Click column headings to sort tables (uses Ruby to handle sorting)
- SortHelper2 – Another take on sort via clickable headers (uses SQL to handle sorting)
- Sort Helper the third – Sort database result sets with clickable column headers (also uses SQL to handle sorting)
- movtable – A port to rails of Movtable, full featured sort table, filterable, with context menus.
- JavascriptSortableTables – Not a Ruby helper as such, but it doesn’t require Ajax, Ruby or SQL to work – it’s all in client side Javascript
- PhpSession – Pull information from php sessions via cookies
- CalendarHelper – Select dates from a calendar popup or in-page
- DatePicker – A simple, lean JavaScript datepicker purpose built for use with Rails. Project homepage and demo
- DynamicCalendarHelper – Renders a basic calendar in HTML. Highly configurable and allows for databinding as well as formatting
- AssociationHelper – Select an associated object from a list of candidates.
- FormatData – Formats output data with specified formatting if the specified value does or does not match a default value.
- FCKeditor on Rails – Another take on a helper for FCKeditor, includes file browser
- FlashObjectHelper – Uses the FlashObject javascript to renders Flash objects with version detection, HTML fallback, and parameter settings. This is part of the OpenLaszlo Rails plugin.