# Plugin versioning **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 2, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-versioning/54348 "2006-03-02T02:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crucoba)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-versioning/54348/1 "2006-03-02T02:04:48Z")
When I install a plugin, does Rails record the version installed anywhere? Maybe I’m not doing it the “right” way, but I’ve excluded vendors from my source repository. I’d like some ‘record’ of what plugins are used that is under source control. David ---
**Author:** ![crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crucoba)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-versioning/54348/2 "2006-03-02T07:24:38Z")
On 01/03/06, David C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > When I install a plugin, does Rails record the version installed anywhere? > Maybe I’m not doing it the “right” way, but I’ve excluded vendors from my > source repository. I’d like some ‘record’ of what plugins are used that is > under source control. If you are working with svn use svn:externals: $ svn propset svn:externals “rcss\_engine svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rcss/trunk/rcss” vendor/plugins $ svn ci -m “added rcss\_engine to plugins and put it under version control” $ svn up vendor/plugins If you use a tag url you will always know which exact tag of plugin/engine you are using. You can in addidtion specify exact version to include (see Subversion manual). If you use other VCS than try to find similiar functionality. ---
**Author:** ![crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crucoba)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-versioning/54348/3 "2006-03-02T11:13:26Z")
On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:24 am, Łukasz Piestrzeniewicz wrote: > $ svn ci -m “added rcss\_engine to plugins and put it under version control” > $ svn up vendor/plugins > > If you use a tag url you will always know which exact tag of > plugin/engine you are using. You can in addidtion specify exact > version to include (see Subversion manual). > > If you use other VCS than try to find similiar functionality. I don’t think that comes close to what I want. That keeps my personal workspace up to date (if I understand SVN). I want my projects source repository to know what it depends that’s not in it. And more to the point, I’m talking about when I use “script/plugin install”. ---
**Author:** ![crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crucoba)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-versioning/54348/4 "2006-03-02T17:29:51Z")
On 02/03/06, David C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I don’t think that comes close to what I want. That keeps my personal > workspace up to date (if I understand SVN). I want my projects source > repository to know what it depends that’s not in it. > > And more to the point, I’m talking about when I use “script/plugin install”. Actually that is exactly what it does. Value of svn:externals is stored in your project repository. That means that every person that checks out your project will automatically check out version you provided with -r parameter from external repository location you specified.