I'm currently implementing some infrastructure for managing plugins, but if could easily support this, too. The relevant parts are in railties/lib/plugin_manager.
<http://github.com/dasch/rails/tree/plugin-manager> On Nov 25, 11:27 am, Cristi Balan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25 Nov 2008, at 07:57, Matt Jones wrote: > > > > > > > The discussion on #553 in Lighthouse got me thinking - would it be > > useful to enable > > vendored gems to be git repos? WIth many gems moving to github, most > > have a working > > copy of the gemspec in the repo. > > > For instance, a trunk copy of, say, attribute_fu could be dropped into > > vendor/gems with > > > git clone git://github.com/giraffesoft/attribute_fu.git vendor/gems/ > > attribute_fu > > > My first thought was that this might be very useful for gem > > developers... > > > It would be straightforward to implement, but does it sound useful? > > > Thanks, > > > --Matt Jones > > I'm most likely biased, because I wrote braid but, this would also be > great because one could use braid[1] (or one of the other tools) to > manage the updating of the gem's code from upstream. And this would be > handy because you could track gems that are in development and don't > release proper gems that often. > > There quite a few tools available to manage your vendored code: braid, > giternal, externals, cached externals, piston, submodules. > > A good writeup of all the available options is in the works here: > > http://github.com/gary/dependency_management_talk > > Cristi > > -- > Cristi Balanhttp://rubber.ducki.eshttp://evil.che.lu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
