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Mission Statement: To serve as a testbed for the cutting edge of Ruby on Rails. To close the gap between Rails’ core and the common usage of Rails, so people don’t have to constantly rebuild a simple CMS for every project.

General Controller Improvements

• Rails::ActionArgs
• Rails::APIVersions
• Rails::ParamsModel
• ActionController::ExplicitRender
• InheritedResources

Testing Improvements

• RSpec
• Capybara
• Autotest with Watchr
• DM::Sweatshop

View Improvements

• SimpleForm
• Haml
• Rails::Haml (Generators)
• Sass
• Compass

Model Improvements

• DataMapper
• DO

Overall Infrastructure Improvements

• Devise
• Simple Authz Solution
• Rack::Cache
• Rails::Admin
• Fast I18N Backend
• Rack::Offline
• jQuery UJS

Development Mode Improvements

• Rack::Bug
• ActionController::Exceptions
• Wirble
• LookSee
• LiveConsole
• Rails Best Practices

Security Improvements

• Rails::ParamSafety

Common Needs

• PDF Generation (Saucerly Clone, Prawn)
• Background Tasks (delayed_job)
• Pagination
• Documentation (YARD)
• Attachments (CarrierWave)
• Image Resizing and Thumbnailing (RMagick, works with CarrierWave)