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With the release of Rails 2.0 quite a bit of core functionality has been pushed out into plugins, presumably to lighten the core and allow for these plugins to take development paths and release schedules independent of that of Rails itself.

I just ran head-first into this while trying to use in_place_edit_for which generated this error:

undefined method `in_place_edit_for’ for FaqQuestionController:Class

The docs don’t make it immediately obvious (or rather, they’re completely obtuse) about which plugin the functionality has been moved to. Fortunately one can figure this out for one’s self via the Svn repository:

· CHANGELOG
· account_location/
· acts_as_list/
· acts_as_nested_set/
· acts_as_tree/
· atom_feed_helper/
· auto_complete/
· continuous_builder/
· deadlock_retry/
· exception_notification/
· http_authentication/
· in_place_editing/
· javascript_test/
· legacy/
· localization/
· open_id_authentication/
· scaffolding/
· scriptaculous_slider/
· ssl_requirement/
· token_generator/
· tzinfo_timezone/
· tztime/
· upload_progress/

(Thanks to Ryan Bigg via the rubyonrails-talk list.)