On 17 Jul 2008, at 21:52, friar wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> Wondering if anyone can help me.  I am having terrible problems
> installing plugins for my rails app.  Tried to install
> simply_searchable and all it did was create a folder in the plugins
> directory.  I do not have subversion, I was trying to install
> acts_as_ferret but that didn''t work either, even said it was
> installed, but it is not there, just an empty directory.  Actaully I
> am just looking for a simple way to put a search form to search for
> records in my database, but everything I try doesn''t work.  Tried
the
> simple search at the wiki, but all that did was generate a no method
> error.  Very fustrating.  Any help would be appreciated.  I am a rails
> newbie.
For most plugins, installing just means copying some files into vendor/ 
plugins.
By default script/plugin install will just try and do an svn checkout  
or export so not having subversion could easily kill it. Have you  
tried installing subversion ? You might need the actual binaries  
rather than something like tortoisesvn
Fred
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