Rails - Jul 2006 - PLUGIN newbie: How do I use an installed plugin

All,

I''ve downloaded and installed a plugin into my vendor directory.  How
do
I then take advantage of it?

It has an init.rb file which has the appropriate require.

What do I need to do to make sure that the plugin code gets loaded?

Thanks,
Wes

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If the plugin is placed in your vendor/plugins directory, it will be
loaded automatically, i.e. the plugin should be in
vendor/plugins/<plugin>, with the init.rb file at
vendor/plugins/<plugin>/init.rb.

james

On 7/5/06, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I''ve downloaded and installed a plugin into my vendor directory. 
How do
> I then take advantage of it?
>
> It has an init.rb file which has the appropriate require.
>
> What do I need to do to make sure that the plugin code gets loaded?
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
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On 7/5/06, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I''ve downloaded and installed a plugin into my vendor directory. 
How do
> I then take advantage of it?
>
> It has an init.rb file which has the appropriate require.
>
> What do I need to do to make sure that the plugin code gets loaded?


As long as the plugin is in vendor/plugins then its init.rb will
automatically be called when your application is loaded, there are no
additional steps needed.

Josh
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James Adam wrote:
> If the plugin is placed in your vendor/plugins directory, it will be
> loaded automatically, i.e. the plugin should be in
> vendor/plugins/<plugin>, with the init.rb file at
> vendor/plugins/<plugin>/init.rb.
> 
> james
I am trying to use the "fix_date" plugin.

The plugin is in my vendor/plugins directory.

The init.rb file is in vendor/plugins/fix_date/init.rb.

Here are the contents of init.rb:

   # Include hook code here
   require ''fix_date''

There is a fix_date.rb file in vendor/plugins/lib.

However, I am unable to access the new functionality provided by the 
plugin (incidentally, this plugin modifies 
ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper to change the select_date and 
select_hour methods).

How, exactly, is it "loaded automatically"?  I''ve restarted
my app.
twice and I see no change in the select_hour method.

All of the examples I can find seem to have to do with plugins that need 
to be "called" by file name in an ActiveRecord descendant.

Is there something else that I need to do in order to access the plugin 
methods?

Thanks,
Wes



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