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Hi, Is there an easy way of converting a gem to a plugin, or at least something you can dump into $RAILS_ROOT/vendor? I''m uncomfortable having stuff like capistrano, the shipping gem, builder, autotest being installed globally as a gem instead of being installed for each application. What do you think? Joe

Hi, I am currently experimenting on rake freeze_gems and there is something I do not understand. When I freeze_gems my app, it puts Rails in the /vendor/ directory, which works. But what about all other gems I have installed (for example Unicode, sqlite support, mysql support and so on)? The aim of freezing is to be independant of the versions of the ISP, but it seems that the server still

I would like to give the 0.9.0 version of Ferret a try on my application hosted on TextDrive. I am currently running on the 0.3.2 version there. Does anyone have any tips on installing it locally there? I know just enough about Ruby gems to get by... but I am thinking it could be as easy as passing a -i flag to specify the install location for ferret. Then, the only thing I am not sure about

Hi all, On theserverside.com there is an article describing an interview with Bruce Tate, where he calls Java dead like Cobol. See: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39066 However in the comments, some guy comes up with a good point: He states the following: <quote> I couldn''t come up with a viable enterprise quality/grade deployment platform for RoR. Even