# Plugins Gone Wild

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-gone-wild/167589>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 9, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-gone-wild/167589 "2009-05-09T20:33:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-gone-wild/167589/1 "2009-05-09T20:33:17Z")

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I think I messed up my install of Machinist. I tried to install it as  
a gem using

```
         sudo gem install notahat-machinist --source 

```

[http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)

and when that didn’t seem to work, I tried

```
         ./script/plugin install 

```

git://github.com/notahat/machinist.git

I think I have a really big mess and would like to remove everything  
and re-install.

When I try  
script/plugin remove, my system completes but I don’t see  
anything going on.

When I tried to remove the gem it says it was unsuccessful.

Help???

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugins-gone-wild/167589/2 "2009-05-10T18:57:04Z")

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On May 9, 1:32 pm, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> and re-install.
> 
> When I try  
> script/plugin remove, my system completes but I don’t see  
> anything going on.
> 
> When I tried to remove the gem it says it was unsuccessful.

I think I got it all cleared up. I just went in and deleted everything  
in the related directories and re-cycled my RadRails. Then I tried re-  
installing the gem. ==\>Now everything seems to be working. I did find

> gem environment and \>gem list to get a good handle on where  
> everything was located and where I was at in terms of my  
> installations. ==\>Apologies to the group for such basic questions.