Is there any jquery plugin for creating iGoogle style dashboard? So basically drag n drop style etc.

Possibly a way to save the location of the widgets into a dat开发者_StackOverflowabase in ruby on rails?

jquery ui support drag and drop.U should not find exact plugin for this.

Are you locked into jQuery?

If you are not you should consider Dojo.

Demo Drag and Drop Content panes

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.7.0b2/dojo-release-1.7.0b2/dojox/layout/tests/test_GridContainer.html

and

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.7.0b2/dojo-release-1.7.0b2/dojox/layout/tests/test_GridContainerColWidths.html

I would recommend gridster library