Developing an engine

Rails
1

Hi,

Anyone have any information about what makes developing an engine
different
than a normal slice of an app? The engines wiki hasn’t made it there
yet.

http://rails-engines.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?action=edit&id=DevelopingAnEngine

Thanks,
Peter

2

Was there any discussion on this I missed? I’ve been looking for similar
documentation.

3

We should have some documentation in place very soon. In the meantime,
the rdoc which comes with the Engines plugin itself should explain how
things work to a reasonable degree…

  • james
4

petermichaux wrote:

Hi,

Anyone have any information about what makes developing an engine
different
than a normal slice of an app? The engines wiki hasn’t made it there
yet.

I’m interested in this sort of thing as well. There are wiki entries
such as “acts_like_chicken” which may be cutesie for the insider group,
but have a long way to go for actually helping people as wiki entries
are intended to do.

Afterall, after reading it, it wasn’t clear to me at all when and why I
would choose to use something like “acts_like_” techniques. Call me
thick.

So, is there a page that describes reasonable scenarios where extension
techniques such as engines and modules should be used? Or are engines
modules? These are the noob questions. Not: “How can I make my app act
like a chicken?”

Jake