You can actually control the order of plugin loading with config.plugins array, but I'd guess that'd be PITA
I believe require_plugin ( I'd prefer just "plugin" ) would be a good to have feature. On 9/19/07, Andrew Kaspick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > The topic of plugin dependencies has come up before and it doesn't > seem to have been addressed by core or core doesn't seem to think it's > an issue. I've looked at the current edge code and don't see anything > new, so if I've missed something *please* let me know. > > The following article makes mention of a require_plugin functionality... > http://www.pluginaweek.org/2006/11/05/plugin-dependencies-revisited/ > > and the referenced article seems to make the point that such a feature > may not be required... > http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/10/31/plugin-dependencies > > The reason I bring this up is that with many current core features > being moved to plugins, existing plugins that have been written to > improve functionality in some of those core areas may no longer work > since they will now be dependent on these "core plugins" being > installed... and even if they are installed, there's no guarantee that > the load order will be correct. > > For example, I have written a plugin to improve the functionality of > the in_place_editor code. This code works just fine with the current > public version of rails. Now in edge this core code has been moved to > a plugin and my plugin will no longer work as expected since the core > plugin is now "required" by my plugin. This is fine (although a more > informational warning would be useful for the user) as the user simply > needs to install the "core plugin" as well. This is where problems > start to occur. Since rails loads plugins in alphabetical order by > default, if my plugin comes before the core plugin in name, my plugin > code is overridden. > > With many rails features being deprecated and being moved to plugins, > this will cause many dependencies on any existing plugins. This can > be resolved by specifying the load order with the config.plugins > option, but a user shouldn't have to jump through those hoops to get > things working... at least not before a fair amount of possible > debugging since there may be no indication of the underlying problem > of an existing plugin not working (a user may believe it's their own > code causing problems). Another possible solution is making sure ones > own plugin is alpabetically higher than the one it depends on to force > the proper load order, but that would be rather nasty hack. > > So I'd like to know what people think about having a "require_plugin" > type functionality in core? Is there a valid workaround that exists > already? If there isn't, do people even consider this a problem? > > Thanks, > Andrew > > > > -- Cheers! - Pratik http://m.onkey.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
