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DataTables is a nifty jQuery plugin that adds the ability to paginate, sort, and search your HTML tables. When dealing with large tables (more than a couple of hundred rows) however, we run into performance issues. These can be fixed by using server-side pagination, but this breaks some DataTables functionality. ajax-data tables-rails is a wrapper around DataTables ajax methods that allow synchronization with server-side pagination in a Rails app. It was inspired by this Railscast. I needed...

CanCan is an authorization library for Ruby on Rails that helps manage user permissions in a clean and consistent way. It centralizes all authorization logic in a single Ability class, where you define what actions each type of user can or cannot perform on different resources. Developers then use helpers like authorize! in controllers or can? in views to enforce those rules without scattering permission logic across the application. It supports defining permissions using conditions,...

...It was built to reduce repetitive setup work for layouts, scaffolds, configuration files, and basic authentication. The scaffold generator lets developers choose which controller actions to create and can optionally generate a model and migration. The package supports Rails 2 and Rails 3 through separate generator structures and command conventions. Generated code can work with HAML, Shoulda, and RSpec, while help commands explain the available options. The project is no longer maintained, so it is best suited to legacy codebases, historical reference, or forks that need modernization.