Re: Need Help With Datebock plugin

Nathaniel Brown
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:29:13 -0000

On 3/27/07, glenn <glenn.gillen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> > Those who want to discourage you from using engines really should
> > stop, but they unfortunately wont as they are blinded by some unknown
> > force that compels them to cause needless fear and doubt in those that
> > are considering it.
>
> It was a simple and honest question.

My line was following the question of comparing engines vs plugins,
not engine vs bare assets.

> > What measure to you have to assume that an "engine" is
anything more
> > than a "plugin" anyways?
>
> Overkill in the sense that beyond downloading/installing the dynarch
> calendar plugin the rest of ruby code could be easily wrapped up in a
> single method within application_helper
>
> But as you said, engines allow you to manage the dynach assets.

As you referenced, having the engine manage the assets allows for very
simple upgrades, such as the one I just did for v3.0.3. All you should
need to do is simply do an svn up and restart the server, and you will
get the lastest copy of the dynarch libs as well as any javascript
libs that have been modified. If I did changes to the helper method,
no need to go into your own and change it up, that''s all automatically
done for you.

In simple, engines just make it simple, and save time.

Nathaniel.

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