# Acts\_as\_list plugin not error in production **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 27, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-plugin-not-error-in-production/141629 "2008-06-27T23:16:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeremySpinnix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeremySpinnix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremySpinnix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-plugin-not-error-in-production/141629/1 "2008-06-27T23:16:15Z")
I’m having an issue where acts\_as\_list is not being loaded. I have it in my vendor/plugins dir and it works great in dev mode. But after deployment using Capistrano I am getting the following error in production: NameError (undefined local variable or method `acts\_as\_list’ (full error: [http://pastie.org/223658](http://pastie.org/223658) ). I have verified that the plugins exist in the “current/vendor/plugins” directory on the production server. Any idea why acts\_as\_list wouldn’t work only in that setting? ---
**Author:** ![jeremySpinnix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeremySpinnix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremySpinnix)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-plugin-not-error-in-production/141629/2 "2008-06-27T23:19:11Z")
That subject should have been “acts\_as\_list plugin error in production” btw. ---
**Author:** ![jeremySpinnix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeremySpinnix](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremySpinnix)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/acts-as-list-plugin-not-error-in-production/141629/3 "2008-06-28T05:53:23Z")
Success! I didn’t realize you had to add git powered plugins as submodules and also add git\_enable\_submodules to your deploy file.