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27 Jul 2006

Making your Rails project setup easier

Published in Programming, Rails, Ruby  |  2 Comments

Luke Redpath has come up with a brilliant, and simple solution for having to install a large set of standard Rails plugins with each new Rails project. Rails Plugin Packs™ is a YAML file defined set of plugins that his Plugin will then go through and install.

Therefore, you can build up your set of Location based plugins, such as:

Plugin Packs


about:
  name: Mapping Pack
  description: A set of mapping and geocoding plugins
  author: Andrew Turner
  email: rails@highearthorbit.com
  website: http://www.highearthorbit.com
plugins:
  ym4r_mapstraction:
    source: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ym4r/Plugins/Mapstraction/trunk/ym4r_mapstraction
  GeoRuby:
    source:
  metacarta-geoparser:
    source: http://opensource.agileevolved.com/svn/root/rails_plugins/unobtrusive_javascript/tags/rel-0.1
  yahoo-geocode:
    source: http://opensource.agileevolved.com/svn/root/rails_plugins/navigation_mappings/trunk


about:
  name: User site
  description: Plugins for a standard site with users for authentication and basic cms
  author: Andrew Turner
  email: rails@highearthorbit.com
  website: http://www.highearthorbit.com
plugins:
  acts_as_authenticated:
    source: http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/acts_as_authenticated
  comatose:
    source: http://mattmccray.com/svn/rails/plugins

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  1. Luke Redpath says:

    August 1st, 2006 at 3:18 pm (#)

    Hi Andrew

    FYI, there has been a slight update to the packfile format, and pack functionality has been rolled into the RaPT trunk . See my blog for more details.

  2. Andrew says:

    August 4th, 2006 at 8:58 am (#)

    Excellent, I’ll check out your post and RaPT.

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