# Acts\_as\_list manual plugin install

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-manual-plugin-install/188849>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 19, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-manual-plugin-install/188849 "2010-05-19T11:26:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![aerodame](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@aerodame](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aerodame)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-manual-plugin-install/188849/1 "2010-05-19T11:26:06Z")

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Due to some corporate firewall difficulties I decided to go to my home  
Mac and install the plugin in a rails project and then just copy the  
plugin from the vendors/plugin folder to my (inside) corporate  
project.

Is there a special registration that needs to take place somehow for  
the plugin as rails doesn’t seem to recognize the method yet.

How do you run the “test” function that is in the plugin directory?

BTW, I’m just following along in the Rails Up and Running book’s  
examples to execute through this.

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**Author:** ![aerodame](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@aerodame](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aerodame)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-manual-plugin-install/188849/2 "2010-05-19T17:33:35Z")

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Aerodame wrote:

> Due to some corporate firewall difficulties I decided to go to my home  
> Mac and install the plugin in a rails project and then just copy the  
> plugin from the vendors/plugin folder to my (inside) corporate  
> project.
> 
> Is there a special registration that needs to take place somehow for  
> the plugin as rails doesn’t seem to recognize the method yet.

Often, yes. Copying plugins is rarely a good idea unless you remember  
to run install.rb . Probably better to use script/plugin install with a  
local path or a local repository URL.

And if you have corporate firewall difficulties, get them resolved now  
(the http\_proxy environment variable may be helpful on \*nix). For  
effective Rails development, you’re going to want working connections to  
[rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org) and Github.

> How do you run the “test” function that is in the plugin directory?

There’s a Rake task – test:plugins or something like that.

> BTW, I’m just following along in the Rails Up and Running book’s  
> examples to execute through this.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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