# Installing plugin offline

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugin-offline/119102>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 3, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugin-offline/119102 "2007-11-03T04:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![amirj26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@amirj26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amirj26)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugin-offline/119102/1 "2007-11-03T04:41:40Z")

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I have tried everything I can possibly think of to install a rails  
plugin without being connected to the internet. Specifically, I’m  
wanting to try out the streamlined and active scaffold plugins to  
compare the 2 and choose the best one, but my rails app is on a work  
machine that is offline. I’ve even tried committing both plugins to my  
own svn, as well as make it accessible from an apache web server and  
passing it to the script/plugin command as follows:

ruby script/plugin install \<path\_to\_plugin\>

However, whatever I’ve tried to set \<path\_to\_plugin\> as, ends up  
telling me that the plugin is not found.

I’ve scoured the web as best I can and it amazes me that it seems no  
one else has had this issue yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![amirj26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@amirj26](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/amirj26)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugin-offline/119102/2 "2007-11-03T15:45:51Z")

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On 3 Nov 2007, at 03:40, Amir wrote:

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All script/plugin does is download the plugin and run the install.rb  
if it exists. Check the plugin into source control and you should be  
fine.

Fred