Plugins can come with a generator. Thats the most user friendly way to do what you want.
On 12/29/05, Abdur-Rahman Advany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > At this moment, a lot of people are writing plugin's and helpers where > you would expect components to do the job. I don't think the components > are powerfull enough, they don't provide the nessary tools for extending > core functionality (you always have to write components AND plugins or > make some messy plugins...). > > A senario, I wanted to make a fckeditor plugin that would be able to > handle filemanagement (so its needs actions and views) without messing > around with my application each time. I wanted the plugin that has a > helper fckeditor, be able to be called from formbuilder (example > form_for...|f|...f.fckeditor). And I wanted to make a behavior in > ActionRecord to associate the image's with the model (and be managed > from fckeditor automaticly), something like has_many_images :book_images. > > I COULD do this with a implementation with plugin, but I would need to > include my actions in some controller. Or I will need to write plugin > and a component to get it working. I want easy manage able components > and the current rails core makings this hard. I don't say, i want you > guys to do the work for me, but I need some input it would be acceptable > to make components have plugin like functionality (adding something like > initialise_components in the core). > > This is a really big problem for us as a company, we like to have some > (but not to many) set of easy accessible components. We could do this > by adding the path to config.plugin_paths but this could cause strange > behaviour, and I don't want to force this on other people. > > greets, > > Abdur-Rahman > _______________________________________________ > Rails-core mailing list > Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core > -- Tobi http://jadedpixel.com - modern e-commerce software http://typo.leetsoft.com - Open source weblog engine http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
