# Do you version control your "doc/plugins" directory?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-you-version-control-your-doc-plugins-directory/155006>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 6, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-you-version-control-your-doc-plugins-directory/155006 "2008-12-06T05:09:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-you-version-control-your-doc-plugins-directory/155006/1 "2008-12-06T05:09:04Z")

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do you version control your “doc/plugins” directory? Is one supposed  
to be able to re-generate this from the plugins? (I don’t see a

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/do-you-version-control-your-doc-plugins-directory/155006/2 "2008-12-06T06:21:33Z")

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Personally, I’m attempting to move away from plugins to gems as much  
as possible (using Rails 2.2.2 right now). However, I have been using  
plugins and I did version control them just for simplicities sake. If  
you are making changes to it, then definitely you would have to.

On Dec 5, 10:08 pm, “Greg H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)