# Plugin not found: \["acts\_as\_list"\]

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-not-found-acts-as-list/156897>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 5, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-not-found-acts-as-list/156897 "2009-01-05T01:48:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-not-found-acts-as-list/156897/1 "2009-01-05T01:48:16Z")

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I am trying to install acts\_as\_list in a rails 2.2.2 project but when I  
try the following: ruby script/plugin install acts\_as\_list

I get: Plugin not found: [“acts\_as\_list”]

I had to download the acts\_as\_list plugin from the github because it  
isn’t included in Rails 2.2.2.

The files are in my vendor/plugins/acts\_as\_list folder so I have:

lib/active\_record/acts/list.rb  
README  
test/list\_test.rb  
init.rb

What am I doing wrong here?

TIA

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**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-not-found-acts-as-list/156897/2 "2009-01-05T04:09:52Z")

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if the plugin is already installed in vendor/plugins there is no  
reason to install it with script/plugin.

On Jan 4, 6:48 pm, Jason N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-not-found-acts-as-list/156897/3 "2009-01-05T05:49:15Z")

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Andrew B. wrote:

> if the plugin is already installed in vendor/plugins there is no  
> reason to install it with script/plugin.
> 
> On Jan 4, 6:48�pm, Jason N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

That is what I was thinking, but I was getting in errors in the console  
when I was trying to create new objects in the database giving me an  
error involving acts\_as\_list.

I shut down my computer and when I came back it worked. I tried  
stopping my server and closed all terminal sessions and still didn’t  
work until I rebooted my computer…now it works.

PICNIC = problem in chair not in computer!

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**Author:** ![quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quangn](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quangn)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-not-found-acts-as-list/156897/4 "2009-01-09T16:09:49Z")

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The way to install it from scratch is (on Win):

- cd into the rails\_app/vendor/plugins dir
- git clone git://github.com/rails/acts\_as\_list.git