Bundle-fu

Bundle-fu bundles your css and js files by taking advantage of the css/js include code you’ve already written, so you don’t have to repeat yourself twice. This is all accomplished for you for the price of adding two short lines of code.

homepage: http://code.google.com/p/bundle-fu/

Bundled Resource Plugin

• Groups assets into bundles and reduces setup code. Includes Dynarch calendar, qForms.

svn: svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/bundled_resource/trunk

asset_packager

http://synthesis.sbecker.net/pages/asset_packager
look to merge, and also get rid of the ? in assets so that safari and other browsers can cache them.

SuperImage Plugin

• SuperImage is a plugin that allows you to put image data in your database And retrieve at any size you like. Combine this with page caching and you have a fast and easy way to manage large numbers of uploaded files, sized how you like.

homepage: http://beautifulpixel.textdriven.com/articles/2006/04/27/superimage-plugin-making-resizeable-uploaded-images-easy

svn: http://beautifulpixel.textdriven.com/svn/plugins/super_image/

DCSS

• A pre-processor for css that allows you to reduce duplication and simplify your css files.

svn: http://svn.ducknewmedia.com.au/public/rails_plugins/dcss/trunk

DownloadLinkHelper

• DownloadLinkHelper is a small plugin that adds a new download_link_tag that can be called from within your views. It then generates the link along with the file-size in parenthesis.

homepage:
http://dl-link-helper.rubyforge.org

svn:
svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/dl-link-helper/trunk

S3 Asset Host Syncher

• S3 Asset Host Syncher is a Capistrano 2.1 recipe that synchronizes your Amazon S3 asset hosts with your subversion repository on every deploy.

homepage: http://spattendesign.com/2007/11/6/synching-your-amazon-s3-asset-host-using-capistrano

svn: svn://svn.spattendesign.com/svn/plugins/synch_s3_asset_host

MojoMagick

homepage: http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/01/30/mojomagick-ruby-image-library-for-imagemagick/

svn: svn://svn.misuse.org/science/mojo_magick/trunk

Many Ruby language interfaces to Imagemagick eat a lot of memory or even worse leak memory. Or they copy the images to temp files before operating on them (slowing down the whole process).

If you have complex image needs, then these apps are ok. If you are building a web application that just needs fast answers to questions like:

“What is the pixel height and width of this image?”

Or if you need to quickly scale an image to fit inside a bounding area..

Then MojoMagick is your man.