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Mislav’s will_paginate plugin (and Gem) has become the de facto standard for pagination in Rails, replacing the often derided classic pagination from the dark days before Rails 2.0. If you haven’t used will_paginate before then Ryan Bates’ RailsCast is a good introduction, although be warned that it is just over a year old and there have been a number of changes to the plugin in that time (the current version is 2.3.2).

I’ve just finished working on some code that makes use of Scott Rutherford’s FCKEditor plugin for Rails. It’s a great plugin that stops views from becoming cluttered with the extra code needed to get FCKEditor working.

I stumbled a bit though when I needed to use an editor that wasn’t tied to a model: there is no tag helper. A quick search turned up a request for such a helper but it doesn’t seem like anybody has actually written one. So here’s mine!