Frederick Cheung wrote: > On Feb 26, 7:34�am, John Small <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm writing an acts_as_x type plugin/gem and I need to know how to >> detect which other acts_as plugins are installed so I can avoid name >> conflicts. What's a simple way to do this? > > Well there's not much in the way of conventions or ways to list other > installed plugins. You may find the easiest way is to namespace your > stuff (so install of having MyAwesomeModule make it > YourOrganisation::MyAwesomeModule), but as far as you and some other > plugin both adding an acts_as_foo method you're probably out of luck. > You can find out if the method you are about to add is already there, > but depending on plugin load order you might load before the > conflicting plugin. > > Fred I rather thought that might be the case, I'll name space myself and add a switch to the initialization to determine whether to use probably unique but awkward method names or simpler but probably conflicting method names.
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