Hi, Still during Debconf, I filed an ITP for libacts-as-list-ruby. This very handy and popular Rails plugin is -as most things Rails- thought to be used from within Rails only, and only as a plugin, so it ships with a very simple init.rb:
$:.unshift "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/lib" require 'active_record/acts/list' ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval { include ActiveRecord::Acts::List } In Rails, whatever code you have in vendor/plugins gets its init.rb executed insta-magically upon the framework initialization. Now, packaging this module will not put the init.rb in vendor/plugins (nor anywhere in the system - I'm not shipping the file at all). After all, this module can be used with any piece of code which uses ActiveRecord. So, instead of this file I'm shipping ./usr/lib/ruby/1.8/acts_as_list.rb, which contains: require 'active_record/acts/list' begin require 'active_record' rescue LoadError require '/usr/share/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record' end ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval { include ActiveRecord::Acts::List } The begin/rescue part is because it depends on either ActiveRecord or Rails. And yes, it could even waive that (as many applications will have the whole of rails stashed in vendor/), but I'm not _that_ forgiving. Now, why am I writing to the list? Because I am this way introducing a slight change in the invocation - It will be needed to add a «require 'acts_as_list'» to code requiring this plugin, be it Rails (of course, given we are not pluginizing) or otherwise. I will try to push this idea upstream, and will of course document it in README.Debian. Besides this, is there anything else I should look out for? Anything you spectacularly bad with this idea? Thanks, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers mailing list Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers