Plugin Examples

Are there any good plugin example sites out there? Im wanting to
componentize my application into a bunch of plugins so I can pick and
choose which ones to use based on what the client wants.

Thanks,
Nick Griffith

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On 15 Mar 2007, at 16:51, griffnb wrote:

Are there any good plugin example sites out there? Im wanting to
componentize my application into a bunch of plugins so I can pick and
choose which ones to use based on what the client wants.

Rails plug-ins generally don’t work well for encapsulating a complete
module (e.g. full CRM module with views, controllers, Â…), but are
great for extrapolating specific common functionality you’re using
throughout your applications (e.g. adding extra javascript_helpers, Â…).
If you want to share complete modules between your applications, you
can look into Rails Engines (http://rails-engines.org/). I believe
this will change (or maybe already has) in the next version of Rails,
as it is evolving to a core framework where you add plugins for
specific functionality (e.g. the in_place_editor will become a plugin
in Rails 2.0). You might look into the mephisto blog code, I believe
it implements extensibility by adding extra modules.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

Hi,

on [1] you can find lots of plugins. You can learn a lot by
investigating
some plugins or simply follow the links to the rails wiki page about
plugins
and the plugin guide, which i would recommend to read. It helped me to
understand the whole structure.

bye,
Tino

[1] http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins