Forum: Rails Engines development Cannot download the engine plugin.

I tried to download the engine pluging using the ruby script/plugin 
method but it does not work. Here is the errors logged into console:

C:\Ruby\InstantRails\rails_apps\theapp>ruby script\plugin install 
engines
script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn --version
script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn ls 
http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn
/rails/plugins/
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/plugin
.rb:313:in `plugins': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass 
(NoMethodEr
ror)
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:321:in `each'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:238:in `find_plugin'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:237:in `each'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:237:in `find_plugin'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:696:in `parse!'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:692:in `each'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:692:in `parse!'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:411:in `parse!'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:427:in `parse!'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/co
mmands/plugin.rb:823
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_re
quire.rb:21:in `require__'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_re
quire.rb:21:in `require'
        from 
C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.
5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in `require'
        from script/plugin:3

Chris Laurie wrote:
> I tried to download the engine pluging using the ruby script/plugin 
> method but it does not work. Here is the errors logged into console:
> 
> C:\Ruby\InstantRails\rails_apps\theapp>ruby script\plugin install 
> engines
> script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn --version
> script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn ls 
> http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn
> /rails/plugins/
> C:/Ruby/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/plugin
> .rb:313:in `plugins': private method `split' called for nil:NilClass 
> (NoMethodEr
> ror)
>         from 



I think this means that you do not have svn configured correctly,
specifically that svn is not in your PATH.

Do you have svn installed on your machine? It seems like the
script/plugin command is making calls to svn, but cannot find it on
your system.

- james

James Adam wrote:
> Do you have svn installed on your machine? It seems like the
> script/plugin command is making calls to svn, but cannot find it on
> your system.
> 
> - james

Right, if you've just got TortoiseSVN or some other client, that won't 
work...you actually need SVN itself.