Very cool list of Ruby Gems..

NIce.

clipped from www.missingmethod.com How To Build a Social Network with Ruby on Rails Plugins and other code-related items acts_as_commentable for comments on your user profiles and blog posts acts_as_attachment for uploading profile pictures acts_as_taggable for tagging users and blog posts tiny_mce so users who don’t get wikis can have formatted text learn how to do a self-referential friendship so your users can have friends ez_where resource_feeder for simple rss feeds resource_hacks restful_authentication to maintain the rigor of developing restfully white_list ffmpeg/mencoder for converting media obviously, from some of the plugins mentioned above, you should use edge-rails and embrace the CRUD-constrained approach You’re currently reading “How To Build a Social Network with Ruby on Rails,” an entry on The Whiny Nil