I know they are adding a lot to the core of rails, but what about the rest? Will the Engines plugin live on to provide the missing pieces? One more small thing that would be missing without the Engines plugin -- a good way to deal with fixtures. I keep a set of tests and fixtures in my engine (vendor/plugins/my_plugin/test/...). Seems like the best place to keep them, right? And the Engines plugin has a rake task that copies your engine fixtures and your main app fixtures to a common temporary directory, and then a bit of code that sets the Rails fixture directory to that tmp directory. With all your fixtures together, you can test happily. On that note, I worked out a way to use autotest (zentest) with your engine plugins, if anyone is interested -- http://code.whatcould.com/2009/02/09/gentlemen-test-your-engines.html == Thanks a lot for your work on this, James -- kind of funny that, in getting the Engine features in rails itself, you worked yourself out of a job maintaining the Engines plugin! david |
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