# Newly sourced plugin very slow to install

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newly-sourced-plugin-very-slow-to-install/134559>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 12, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newly-sourced-plugin-very-slow-to-install/134559 "2008-04-12T00:44:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@stickstone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stickstone)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newly-sourced-plugin-very-slow-to-install/134559/1 "2008-04-12T00:44:29Z")

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I have a plugin that I’ve written and stored on GoogleCode  
([http://bcardarella.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/checkbox\_select](http://bcardarella.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/checkbox_select) if  
anybody wants to check it out)

Anyway, I added my svn repository as a source with:

script/plugin source

And I go to install my plugin:

script/plugin install checkbox\_select

It will eventually install but it takes about 5 minutes… sometimes it  
will throw a Timeout error.

Is there a reason for this? I’m guessing that there is a slow repository  
somewhere in the default source list that is causing this issue. And it  
seems that the script/plugin script will iterate the entire sources list  
searching each one for the appropriate plugin name to install. Is this  
really the best way to do this, especially if there is a default  
repository that is causing issues?

If anybody has any thought on this please let me know.

(maybe the plugin script is being updated to include GIT for 2.1?)