# Installing plugins

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/131243>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 7, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/131243 "2008-03-07T07:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![ewo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ewo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ewo)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/131243/1 "2008-03-07T07:47:32Z")

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A couple of simple questions about plugins:

1. Is the rapt plugin installer tool actively in use? I like the idea  
of the plugin pack and keyword searching, but it doesn’t seem like  
there is much activity on this project since it was posted a couple of  
years ago. Perhaps it has been obsoleted by developments with script/  
plugin?

2. Some of the plugins out there have the source located in the svn  
“trunk” directory. When you install such a thing using “ruby script/  
plugin install svn://blah.com/pluginname/trunk” (for example), then  
you end up with a a plugin called “trunk” in vendor/plugins. This  
seems less than ideal. Is there some way to name the plugin directory  
when it is installed?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

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**Author:** ![ewo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ewo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ewo)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/131243/2 "2008-03-07T10:32:21Z")

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On 7 Mar 2008, at 06:47, ewo wrote:

> A couple of simple questions about plugins:
> 
> 1. Is the rapt plugin installer tool actively in use? I like the idea  
> of the plugin pack and keyword searching, but it doesn’t seem like  
> there is much activity on this project since it was posted a couple of  
> years ago. Perhaps it has been obsoleted by developments with script/  
> plugin?

dunno

> 1. Some of the plugins out there have the source located in the svn  
> “trunk” directory. When you install such a thing using “ruby script/  
> plugin install svn://blah.com/pluginname/trunk” (for example), then  
> you end up with a a plugin called “trunk” in vendor/plugins. This  
> seems less than ideal. Is there some way to name the plugin directory  
> when it is installed?

script/plugin doesn’t do anything very magic. You could just check it  
out yourself or rename it after it’s been installed.

Fred