Formtastic is a Rails FormBuilder DSL (with some other goodies) to make it far easier to create beautiful, semantically rich, syntactically awesome, readily stylable and wonderfully accessible HTML forms in your Rails applications.
Better Assets is a monkeypatch to the Rails 2.3.2 AssetTagHelper to enable some additional functionality. The key points are: * Time-based expiry of cached asset files, which is primarily useful for... * Caching and combining of remote assets * Finally, you can post-process combined assets with blocks passed to javascript_include_tag and stylesheet_link_tag.
A mini view framework for console/irb that's easy to use, even while under its influence. Console goodies include a no-wrap table, auto-pager, tree and menu.
Inherited Resources speeds up development by making your controllers inherit all restful actions so you just have to focus on what is important. It makes your controllers more powerful and cleaner at the same time.
Plus, making your controllers follow a pattern, it helps you to write better code by following fat models and skinny controllers convention.