I just found the Engines plugin and I'm very happy with the progress I've made this morning in getting up and running with it. I'm using it as a replacement for Duane's Productize concept. I have a generic application that will be the base for customer specific applications. Mostly views will change from customer to customer to use different pieces of data from the model. Since Productize is pretty much dead (I spoke to Duane and he said the project he developed Productize for died in vitro), I was fishing for a replacement. At first I tried using the themes plugin, and it worked mostly, but I found I needed something that would allow me to override controller code because too much logic was having to be expressed in my themed views without that ability.
Engines has allowed me to take the generic app, stuff it into an engine and create a brand new rails app, install Engines and my engine then start customizing for this customer from there. Absolutely fantastic. I really think some effort should be made to let people know how well Engines can replace Productize. I saw several blog posts and articles that were lamenting the lack of Productize in Rails 1.1. I'll do my part and comment on a few of those posts with my success so far. :) Thanks! Daniel -- Daniel Einspanjer _______________________________________________ engine-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rails-engines.org/listinfo.cgi/engine-developers-rails-engines.org
