On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
<[email protected]>wrote:

>  On 07-12-2010 18:34, Michael Koziarski wrote:
>
>> I wanted to get the conversation started...what do people think?
>>>
>> Bundler's certainly done a great job of making it low-cost to add,
>> install and upgrade gems that your app depends on.  However without a
>> pretty compelling *cost* to maintaining the existence of plugins, I
>> don't really see what the upside is.
>>
>> For the odd small snippet of code you want to share amongst a few
>> applications, plugins are a lovely lo-fi solution.  Removing that
>> would come with a pretty high hurdle, one much higher than  "the code
>> would be nicer" when, in reality, it's very little code to support
>> them, 91 lines or so at present
>>
>
> On the good side of keeping plugins, unless I'm missing something, it seems
> easier for the developer to test (I'm not talking about automated tests) the
> plugin in the development phase, before packaging it in a gem. But maybe I'm
> just missing about how development could be easily tested when used as a
> gem...
>

With bundler you can test your gem in development easily, just use :path in
your Gemfile:

gem 'xxx', :path => 'your local folder'

Jan


>
> Rodrigo
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