On Dec 29, 2:52 pm, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > sa 125 wrote: > > How would I go about installing rails plugins offline? I cannot connect > > to the web on my work computer, though I have a dedicated internet > > machine for downloads and such. > > This is precisely why I generally prefer gems over plugins,
How does using gems help at all? It seems to me that gems would suffer from precisely the same problem as plugins here. > Now that > Rails has good support for gem dependencies I expect to see most plugins > converted to gems. This already seems to be a pretty popular trend. And I think an unfortunate one. Unless there's something I don't understand about gem packaging (which is quite possible :) ), it seems to me that while it's easy to install a plugin into one app without affecting the whole environment, it's hard to do so for a gem. (Yes, I know about frozen gems, but the usual way of doing that is to install the gem on the development computer first, then freeze it into the app.) I often need to install gems on my local machine in order to work on clients' projects (after all, not everyone freezes their gems), and I wish it wasn't necessary -- I don't want to change my entire operating environment for the sake of one project. I like gems for things like RSpec that I actually use on every project. But I hope the day never comes when I have to install a special-purpose gem for just one app because it doesn't exist as a plugin. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser [email protected] http://www.marnen.org > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
