# Problem installing auto\_complete plugin in Rails 2.2.2

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-auto-complete-plugin-in-rails-2-2-2/160244>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-auto-complete-plugin-in-rails-2-2-2/160244 "2009-02-13T11:11:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![spiros](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@spiros](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spiros)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-auto-complete-plugin-in-rails-2-2-2/160244/1 "2009-02-13T11:11:46Z")

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Hello world,

First of all, let me say “i am sorry” to those receiving my post for 2nd  
time in RubyOnRails-Talk @ Google G., I hope this forum  
[[ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com)] had a switch to turn that “feature” off at will.

I am considering myself to be a newbie in Ruby, but not programming in  
general and i have a big problem trying to get Rails 2.2.2 to  
install the auto\_complete plugin in Windows XP. Even if i copy the files  
myself, I get the “auto\_complete\_for method not found” error in ruby.

After 2 days of full-internet-search I have tried the following:

- Using the “ruby script/plugin install auto\_complete” command :  
results in “not found” (even after adding every single repository  
under discovery)

- Trying to load the SVN URL posted in oh-so-many forums, in the “ruby  
on rails” official site, I get a “page not found” error

- Trying to manually copy the files in the vendor/plugin directory of  
my project (got them from the model\_auto\_completer example), but still  
does not work… (if i execute “script/plugin list” there is nothing)

Regarding this last part, i have been trying to find documentation  
about how to manually install a plugin, but with no results. In every  
forum that someone asks “how to do it manually” people respond with  
“script/plugin install”. This is automatic, not manually, as i am sure  
most of you know. What i am searching for is instructions on: where to  
place the files myself and what to execute myself so that my project  
will ‘use’ the plugin.

I will be thankful for any help you might offer, no matter how small,  
but PLEASE don’t repeat to me steps i have already taken with no  
differentation what-so-ever. This is both pointless and insulting.

Yours sincerely,  
a frustrated RoR programmer  
Spiros K