Rails - May 2011 - How to use an ActiveRecord plugin in a non-Rails project

I''m using ActiveRecord on a Sinatra app. I need one of my tables to be
sorted, so I''m using acts_as_list
(https://github.com/swanandp/acts_as_list).
However, it isn''t a gem, so I don''t know how to get it to work
with
Bundler.

Currently, I just cloned the source into a dir named "vendor". This
works,
but when I search my code, it keeps including acts_as_list code in the
results. It also means more folders and files, so just generally more
overhead. I''d like it to be as transparent as all the gems I use.

Is there some way to get Bundler to deal with it, or is there a best
practice for this situation?

(I was thinking I could probably fork it, give it a gemspec, and then tell
Bundler to look at my forked repo, does that sound reasonable?)

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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Josh Cheek
<josh.cheek-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I was thinking I could probably fork it, give it a gemspec, and then tell
> Bundler to look at my forked repo, does that sound reasonable?
>
>
I ended up doing this. https://github.com/JoshCheek/acts_as_list Add one
fairly simple file, and now it works with Bundler. Then load it into my app
with:

require "active_record/acts/list.rb"
ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, ActiveRecord::Acts::List


I think this was a good solution.

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Hey Josh,

Just as a side note, I think it would be more respectful to list all the authors
of this gem in your gemspec file

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  …..
 s.authors = [''Joshua Cheek'']
  …..
end

Wael

On May 30, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Josh Cheek wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Josh Cheek
<josh.cheek-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I was thinking I could probably fork it, give it a gemspec, and then tell
Bundler to look at my forked repo, does that sound reasonable?
> 
> 
> I ended up doing this. https://github.com/JoshCheek/acts_as_list Add one
fairly simple file, and now it works with Bundler. Then load it into my app
with:
> 
> require "active_record/acts/list.rb"
> ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, ActiveRecord::Acts::List
> 
> 
> I think this was a good solution.
> 
> 
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