# Installing Plugins

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/183567>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 16, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/183567 "2010-02-16T18:23:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/183567/1 "2010-02-16T18:23:22Z")

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Coming from Perl and familiar with CPAN, I’d like some info about  
installing  
plugins.

Basically, do I trust where the libraries are installed?

For example, I have installed the Liquid plugin (./script/plugin install  
[http://liquid-markup.googlecode.com/svn/trunk](http://liquid-markup.googlecode.com/svn/trunk) ) and the installation  
directory is vendor/plugin/svn.

To me, this doesn’t seem to be correct. Surely it should  
be vendor/plugin/liquid. I don’t want to install libs as gems as I just  
want  
them application specific. I also don’t need SVN tips, I know how to  
rename  
an installation directory. My question is, what do I trust?

As an aside, I’ve installed RedCloth but I could only find it as a gem,  
is  
it possible to install a gem as a plugin? I’ve found these repositories  
but  
no joy.

- Technoweenie [http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/)
- Core Rails [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/)
- Rails Wiki [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/plugins](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/plugins)
- Topfunky [http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins](http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins)
- Plugin Directory [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/index](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/index)

CIA

-Ants

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**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-plugins/183567/2 "2010-02-16T23:08:14Z")

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> the installation directory is vendor/plugin/svn  
> I’ve seen that issue myself a couple of times. Never bothered to look  
> into it, I just renamed the folder manually.

> it possible to install a gem as a plugin?  
> Check out the “gem unpack” command

> I’ve found these repositories but no joy  
> [github.com](http://github.com) and [gemcutter.org](http://gemcutter.org) are the top places to look for RoR  
> plugins/gems.  
> You can install RedCloth as a plugin from github.