Re: plugin dependencies

Nathaniel Brown
Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:28:39 -0000

What about looking at a script/gem install which installs the gem into the
load path of a vendor/gems/ directory? This could provide the dependency
requirements by leveraging what''s existing.

One thing that comes to mind which the config.plugins does that a gem
won''t
neccessarly do, is the load order of them.

I am strongly for the idea of using Gems instead of plugins. This has always
been a wish of mine.

On 10/5/07, James Adam <james.adam@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On 9/21/07, James Adam <james.adam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/21/07, DHH <david.heinemeier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If every plugin''s lib was in the load path *before*
any plugin could
> > > > start playing around or monkeypatching, many situations
where you
> > > > might want to explicitly ensure a plugin was loaded can be
made to
> go
> > > > away.
> > >
> > > Can you look into writing a patch for that?
> >
> > Absolutely.
> >
>
> I''ve just created two (independent) patches to address this issue,
> which you guys can now see on Trac. Both apply cleanly on edge as of
> 10 minutes ago, though not at the same time, of course.
>
> The first - http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9793 - does the job with
> the minimal amount of change to the existing code, and would be great
> to apply, but still leaves me feeling like more could be done. Hence:
>
> The second - http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9795 - which also does
> the job, but also refactors the plugin locator/loader relationship to
> be (hopefully) clearer, more testable and easier to develop in the
> future. It''s quite a bit bigger, but that is only because it is
mostly
> refactoring (which always inflates a diff) and testing, rather than
> significant new behaviour.
>
> While I''m aware that getting feedback on this larger patch is
going to
> be more effort on your part, once you''ve applied it to a clean
edge
> checkout, browsing around the code in railties/lib/rails/ should be
> clear enough.
>
> Feedback greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> * J *
>   ~
>
> >
>


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