Done. http://dev.rails-engines.org/tickets/122
On 4/4/06, Jeff Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oooo, great idea. I'm on it. > > -jeff > > On 4/4/06, James Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very interesting Jeff :) > > > > It would certainly be good if when you tried to install an engine, it > > checked for the engines plugin and installed it if necessary - fancy > > coding this up as a patch to the engine generator and submitting it? > > > > - james > > > > On 4/4/06, Jeff Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just figured out a pretty cool way to automate the installation of > > > engines (or well, any kind of plugin)... > > > > > > Plugins now have an install.rb that hooks into the plugin installation > > > process. You can make a new plugin with just this file, called > > > my_installer for example, and then do something like this in it: > > > > > > require 'commands/plugin' > > > # install the engines plugin > > > Commands::Plugin.parse! ['install', > > > 'http://svn.rails-engines.org/plugins/engines'] > > > # install some engines > > > Commands::Plugin.parse! ['install', 'http://my-cool-engine'] > > > Commands::Plugin.parse! ['install', 'http://my-other-cool-engine'] > > > # install another really cool plugin ; ) > > > Commands::Plugin.parse! ['install', > > > 'http://progrium.com/svn/vantage/trunk/widgets'] > > > # get rid of the installer > > > Commands::Plugin.parse! ['remove', 'my_installer'] > > > > > > Now if you put this up somewhere, you can install all these things > > > into a new app with: > > > > > > $ script/plugin install http://example.com/svn/my_installer > > > > > > I imagine you could do a lot of other cool stuff this way! Let me know > > > if this is already a well known practice or something. :P > > > > > > -- > > > Jeff Lindsay > > > http://blogrium.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > engine-developers mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-developers-rails-engines.org > > > > > > > > > -- > > * J * > > ~ > > _______________________________________________ > > engine-developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-developers-rails-engines.org > > > > > -- > Jeff Lindsay > http://blogrium.com/ > -- Jeff Lindsay http://blogrium.com/ _______________________________________________ engine-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-developers-rails-engines.org
