Value driven web development

A plugin for installing plugins

May 20th, 2007

We are just starting a new project and want to come up with a easy way install a list of common plugins that we've been using. What's better than writing a plugin to install other plugins? With the help of the highline gem, I wrote a simple rake task that read in a list of plugins from YAML file. Install: 


./script/plugin install http://plugin-install.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugin_install
Usage: 


rake plugin_install
It'll read the "plugins.yml" file copied to your /config directory and lets you choose Yes/No to install each one. plugins.yml example: 
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plugins:
    acts_as_ferret:
        url: "svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret"
    restful_authentication:
        url: "http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/"
    rspec:
        url: "svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/tags/REL_0_9_4/rspec"
    rspec_on_rails:
        url: "svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/tags/REL_0_9_4/rspec_on_rails"
    .
    .
    .
Note: Also get the "rapt" gem for discovering rails plugins.
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