# How to install plugin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-plugin/117409>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 16, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-plugin/117409 "2007-10-16T17:27:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnlester)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-plugin/117409/1 "2007-10-16T17:27:48Z")

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Hi quick question, hopefully…

If I have a plugin in a tar file I presume I can just extract this under  
vendor/plugins and re-start my server ?

Or does ruby script/plugin install do more magic than that?

Cheers,  
John

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**Author:** ![johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnlester)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-plugin/117409/2 "2007-10-16T17:37:22Z")

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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 17:27 +0200, John L. wrote:

> Hi quick question, hopefully…
> 
> If I have a plugin in a tar file I presume I can just extract this under  
> vendor/plugins and re-start my server ?

Yes. A plugin is just a bunch of files.

–  
Tore D.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Trondheim, NO  
[http://tore.darell.no/](http://tore.darell.no/)

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**Author:** ![johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnlester)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-plugin/117409/3 "2007-10-16T17:40:53Z")

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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 17:27 +0200, John L. wrote:

> Hi quick question, hopefully…
> 
> If I have a plugin in a tar file I presume I can just extract this under  
> vendor/plugins and re-start my server ?
> 
> Or does ruby script/plugin install do more magic than that?

There’s an install.rb file, but it’s not used most of the time… Just  
open it and see if it does anything. I don’t know if you can just run it  
as is or if script/plugin does something else with it

–  
Tore D.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
Trondheim, NO  
[http://tore.darell.no/](http://tore.darell.no/)

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**Author:** ![johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@johnlester](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnlester)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-install-plugin/117409/4 "2007-10-18T01:03:49Z")

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Thanks, that’s what I thought.