# Offline plugin installation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-plugin-installation/87530>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 3, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-plugin-installation/87530 "2007-03-03T14:16:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![teesea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@teesea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/teesea)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/offline-plugin-installation/87530/1 "2007-03-03T14:16:45Z")

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I recently tried to install the acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids plugin by  
downloading the files one by one from  
[http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids/](http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids/)  
using firefox and saving them in a folder named  
acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids I then put this folder on a off line pc  
and tried to install the plugin

C:\InstantRails\rails\_apps\test\>ruby script/plugin install E:  
\acts\_as\_taggable  
Plugin not found: E:\acts\_as\_taggable

As you can see I got plugin not found, after much hassle I decided to  
connect the pc up to the net and entered

ruby script/plugin install  
[http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids](http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids)

and this worked ok, its possible that I’ve somehow missed a file when  
downloading the plugin manually, but I have checked it several times  
and it looks ok, connecting up the offline machine for every plugin  
that I need is going to be a pain so i would appreciate if anyone can  
see any obvious errors in what I did for the off line installation or  
if anyone knows of any software that can automate the download process  
of getting these plugins?

Cheers

Teesea