On 11/28/06, Dae San Hwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Recently, I was thinking about a better way of implementing Rails plugin > system. There are two things that I don't particularly like about Rails > plugin system. One is the code duplication. You have to install same plugin > codes over and over for all of your Rails applications. The other problem is > that you have to learn to use yet another utility(script/plugin) and its > repository is not centrally managed. > > So, I was thinking if RubyGems have a namespace built in, we could make all > Rails Plugins into gems under 'rails' namespace. > > To install 'active_form' Rails plugin on the system, you could simply use > 'gem' utility like 'gem install rails/active_form'. To use this plugin in a > rails application, you could just turn on the plugin in > 'config/environment.rb' file by setting 'config.plugins = [:ujs, > :active_form]'. > > I think namespace functionality can be useful for other ruby > applications/libraries like 'rake', as well. Can this be considered? :) > > Dae San Hwang > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
Hi. Have you seen Bruce Williams' work in this area? http://codefluency.com/2006/11/29/rubygem-based-rails-plugins Chad _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
