Looks like someone has started to move down the gem route...

https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/master/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin_new

On Dec 10, 1:34 pm, Ryan Bigg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bundler comes with a gem generator:
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> bundle gem <gemname>
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> On 10/12/2010, at 22:49, Jack Kinsella <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Full support with me on slowly deprecating the plugin system. It saves
> > new developers the cognitive load of asking "plugin vs gem".
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> > @Kevin
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> > Great idea with the "rails generate gem" addition.
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> > --
> > Jack Kinsella
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> > On Dec 8, 5:34 pm, "James B. Byrne" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Wed, December 8, 2010 11:31, Ernie Miller wrote:
> >>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Kevin Skoglund wrote:
> >>>> In a related tangent, I also wonder whether the lower-profile of
> >>>> plugins has caused vendor/* to lose its usefulness.  Could
> >>>> everything
> >>>> in vendor/ move to lib/?  It might just require some tweaks the
> >>>> autoloaded paths.  lib/ could become the single directory for
> >>>> storing
> >>>> all non-application, non-Bundler, libraries of code.
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> >>> I find vendor to be a nice conventional place for various files that
> >>> our applications depend on, which should be version controlled
> >>> alongside our ruby code. The contents of vendor may not even be ruby
> >>> -- it might contain supporting software that's used in an
> >>> integration, for instance.
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> >>> Put another way, vendor is the place for third-party (vendor)
> >>> support files.
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> >> I agree. ./lib is mine, ./vendor is 'theirs'.
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