Our Open Source Projects..

vPayPal

Our first main contribution to open source was the vPayPal gem at RubyForge. This was extracted by Ritu from a project which was using Paypal for merchant transactions. This gem has not seen much active development since long, because of other more exhaustive libraries like ActiveMerchant.

Simple Captcha

It was written by Sur for a project and then enhanced further to be released as a Rails Plugin. Here is what Sur says about simple captcha in his blog.

Simple Captcha written in ruby, is a plugin for ruby on rails applications and provides the captcha based authentication functionality for ror applications. It can be implemented quite easily for either controller or model based captcha. Simple Captcha provides the option of selecting the style of image out of various image styles.

More details on Simple Captcha are available here. http://expressica.com/simple_captcha/

AutoTags

AutoTags, written by Sur, is a RubyOnRails plugin to automatically generate the relevant tags for the provided data. It provides easy integration with the models to automatically feed the data to generate the tags. The plugin will be released soon as an open source project for public usage.

Validate Attributes

It was also written by Sur for a project and then enhanced further to be released as a Rails Plugin. Here is the description of Validate Attributes from Sur's blog

Validate Attributes is a RubyonRails plugin which provides a way to extend the functionality of the the rails' activerecord function valid?. Using this plugin, any specific attribute(s) can be validated or any specific attribute(s) can be skipped.

State Select

It is a Rails Plugin extracted and enhanced by Akhil and with contributions for states from other countries by the users. This plugin allows to create drop down list for states, just as country_select helper method in rails. Curently it can generate state list for India, US, Canada, Australia, Spain and Uganda(default is US).
Read more about the state select plugin on Akhil's blog here