Rails - Sep 2009 - Plugin Install from tgz or zip file

I have a plugin I need to install on my bluehost rails app. Using

./script/plugin install git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git

My command line is giving me no response. It doesn''t seem to try or
even fail, just the next line in bash show us as though nothing was
requested. I just assume bluehost doesn''t allow for grabbing git urls,
and I don''t want to install local gems.

I then decided to download the tarball, and I extracted it, and now I
am trying to install the plugin from file... what is the best way to
do this? I assume there is an option where I download and extract the
tarball to ../recaptcha folder. This folder contains the plugin,
init.rb, lib/, test/, etc etc.

script/plugin install -from-file ./recaptcha

I don''t see an option in the help files or through some forum
searching, anyone know an easy way to do this, or know a good
tutorial?

Thanks
-Josh

Josh White wrote:
> I have a plugin I need to install on my bluehost rails app. Using
> 
> ./script/plugin install git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git
> 
> My command line is giving me no response. It doesn''t seem to try
or
> even fail, just the next line in bash show us as though nothing was
> requested. I just assume bluehost doesn''t allow for grabbing git
urls,
> and I don''t want to install local gems.
It''s not a question of local gems.  You need to have a Git client 
installed to pull from Git repositories.  Do you?  (If you''re not sure,
type "which git" and see if you get an answer.)

If not, install the git-core package (how you do this varies depending 
on your distro).


Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
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Hi Josh
   Actually what you extracted from the tar is the plugin itself. No 
need to install it. Just move it to vendors/plugin folder

    Or

As Marnen Laibow-Koser said install the git client and then from the 
same vendor/plugin folder type

git-clone git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git




Sijo
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Sijo Kg wrote:
> Hi Josh
>    Actually what you extracted from the tar is the plugin itself. No 
> need to install it. Just move it to vendors/plugin folder
No!  Many plugins have an init.rb script that will be run by 
script/plugin install.  Straight copying will not always install a 
plugin properly.

Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Concluding:
(1) Just copy the plugin contents to the vendor/plugin folder.
(2) execute the init.rb script with ruby.

That has worked for me so far, as retrieving from git, with Windows this is
still a pain to do. There are other topics in this mailinglist about it ;)