Proper way to indicate dependencies?

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I’m writing an engine for reuse that requires some other plugins -
what’s the right way to indicate those dependencies? Obviously, since
there’s no vendor directory under the engine, that code can’t be
bundled with the engine itself.

Thanks!

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The simplest way is just to check/install those plugins when
installing the engine - see the install.rb in the login engine for an
example.

Adding the information to the README is also a great idea.

  • james
3

I seen a pretty cool hook in one of the engines I installed…

Create an install.rb file that contains something like the following.

Install the engines plugin if it has been already

unless File.exist?(File.dirname(FILE) + “/…/engines”)
Commands::Plugin.parse!([‘install’,
‘http://svn.rails-engines.org/plugins/engines’])
end

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On 9/24/06, James A. [email protected] wrote:

what’s the right way to indicate those dependencies? Obviously, since
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