Engines and Edge Rails

Rails Engines
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Hi all,

  • /branches/edge is retiring; it will be removed very soon.
  • /trunk is the new head of development, and it’s ‘Universal’
  • → Engines.config(:edge, true) to switch on Edge Rails compatibility
  • → *********please submit patches!!! **********

… As some of you are aware, the Rails core team are currently
overhauling their dependency mechanism to allow better use of modules
and ‘namespacing’ of your code. This is going to have an impact on the
Engines plugin, since it fundamentally works by enhancing that
particular functionality. If you want/need to use Edge Rails, you
should use the version of the Engines plugin now located in the trunk
of the repository:

http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_engines/engines/trunk

To reiterate, if you are currently using the /branches/edge plugin,
please switch to the /trunk. If this causes you issues, please spend
some time tracking down the source so we can fix the bug in /trunk. I
have merged all the development from the 1.0 release branch into this
path, so you’ll be getting all of the features and fixes from that
branch, which should more than make it worthwhile.

The /trunk plugin is ‘universal’, in that it should be able to operate
with both Edge Rails and the 1.0 release. To ‘activate’ the Edge
functionality, add the line:

Engines.config :edge, true

to your environment.rb file (it probably doesn’t matter where, but I’d
add it as the first line after “# Include your application
configuration below” if I were you). By toggling this configuration
value you can switch on and off the Edge rails-compatible methods. If
you don’t include this line, I can pretty much guarantee that you’ll
have issues in Edge Rails.

IMPORTANT NOTE! Since my time is somewhat limited at the moment, I’m
relying on the submission of detailed bug reports and even more
helpfully patches to the dependency mechanisms so we can maintain
compatibility with Rails as it approaches 1.1. The Rails Engines Trac
site is the place to check for existing tickets if you have an issue,
or raise a new ticket if you cannot find your issue already on the
site:

https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/rails_engines/trac.cgi/report/1

Thanks in advance for your help and patience, I’ll post again in a
second about how to test the Engines plugin.

James

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What about auto-detecting what version of Rails it is running? :slight_smile:

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 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net
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It actually tries to do that, but edge rails currently reports itself
as 1.0.0, so that wouldn’t work at the moment…

On 2/14/06, Nathaniel S. H. Brown [email protected] wrote:

From: [email protected]

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