# Pluginfactory 1.0.7

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**Created:** [September 27, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pluginfactory-1-0-7/195671 "2010-09-27T23:23:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pluginfactory-1-0-7/195671/1 "2010-09-27T23:23:52Z")

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Version 1.0.7 of pluginfactory has been released.

PluginFactory is a mixin module that turns an including class into a  
factory for its derivatives, capable of searching for and loading them  
by name. This is useful when you have an abstract base class which  
defines an interface and basic functionality for a part of a larger  
system, and a collection of subclasses which implement the interface for  
different underlying functionality.

== Project Page

[dev(E)iate](http://deveiate.org/projects/PluginFactory/)

== Installation

Via gems:

$ sudo gem install pluginfactory

or from source:

$ wget [http://deveiate.org/code/pluginfactory-1.0.7.tar.gz](http://deveiate.org/code/pluginfactory-1.0.7.tar.gz)  
$ tar -xzvf pluginfactory-1.0.7.tar.gz  
$ cd pluginfactory-1.0.7  
$ sudo rake install

== Changes

Repackaging for Ruby 1.9.2. This release contains no major code changes.