Ruby on Rails acts_as (the good ones I've heard about)

acts_as_authenticated An authentication system
attachment_fu (supersedes acts_as_attachement) File uploading made easy
acts_as_versioned Automagic versioning system
betternestedset (supersedes acts_as_nested_set) Super tree structures (threads, hierarchy, ...)
acts_as_taggable_on_steroids (supersedes acts_as_taggable) Tag your datas !
acts_as_plugin Learn to write your own plugins
acts_as_tsearch PostgreSQL tsearch interface
acts_as_suggest See google "Did you mean?"
acts_as_ferret Interface with the Ferret search engine (a Lucene ruby port)
acts_as_list Ordered lists (from Rails Core)
acts_as_polymorphs Two sided polymorphic associations