Is there a 'standard' (ie. managed) library of Rails plug-ins/ modules/extensions/etc.? (ie. a bit like Perl CPAN or PHP Pear, etc.)
What I am currently looking for is an authentication module. I visited http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Authentication but this just seemed to contain whole 'soup' of different bits of code with no easy way to determine what each does or to judge which is more complete/ robust/maintained.