Mark Daggett, the very epitome of the artist-programmer, is the ultimate yak-shaver. You can set him onto a task and three days later, you’ll have four awesome plugins and half the task finished. He’s currently studying for his PHD in some arty computer thing, but in the meantime keeps putting out some quality code.

name nanny

Mark also likes coming up with silly names for his implementations, so you call name nanny in your model like

validates_wholesomeness_of :login

The plugin looks for any ‘bad’ words (which you define) and replaces them with the word, ‘bleep’. Or, with the word, ‘smurf’. Which is much more fun.

acts_as_dismissible

This useful plugin, which I originally spec’d for a shared client, gives users a box with a “dismiss” button, so they never need to see a particular message again, unless they clear their cookies.

Go check it out! http://locusfoc.us