LiveReload (via Envy Labs) →

Pretty sweet plugin + extension for designing sites, setup is a bit involved, but well worth it :)

Jquery color fade plugin

Jquery 1.3.2 and Jquery UI makes it dead simple to animate elements, to demonstrate how easy it is, I’ve created the color fade plugin for jquery. This plugin was inspired by and originally popularized by 37 signals’ yellow fade technique.

Here’s how easy it is to use the color fade technique:

      // Fade from yellow to white
      $('p').color_fade();
      
      // Fade from blue to white
      $('p').color_fade({from:'blue',to:'white'});
      
      // Fade from black to white, real fast
      $('p').color_fade({from'black',to:'white',speed:100});

Get it now!

Google AJAX API Rails Plugin →

Just added a super simple rails plugin for using js from Google’s AJAX API CDN

Fancy Box Rails Plugin

Tired of boring lightboxes and such, needs some osx’ish goodness in your rails app? Why don’t you try out the Fancy Box Plugin? :

To use in your app :

• cd into the root of your app
• cd vendor/plugins
• git clone git://github.com/vanntastic/fancy_box.git
• cd ../../../; rake fancy_box:install:all
• add: <%= include_fancy_box %> anywhere in the head of you page or layout file

This is based of the jquery plugin fancy_box which you can find at : http://fancy.klade.lv/

Get it at : http://github.com/vanntastic/fancy_box/tree/master