# Rails vendor directory ... WTF?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vendor-directory-wtf/108036>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 28, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vendor-directory-wtf/108036 "2007-06-28T16:24:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vendor-directory-wtf/108036/1 "2007-06-28T16:24:40Z")

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Hey all,

Working on a little rails app and was gonna install backgroundrb for  
something… tried to go into the vendor/plugins dir and plugins wasn’t  
there! my app was created with a normal rails appname command… i  
tried making another and the same thing happened… where do i put my  
backgroundrb plugin now? that’s not all… to make matters even more  
perplexing inside vendor there’s a bunch of ‘activexxxxxx’ folders and  
a rails folder… in the rails folder there’s the same directories and  
it goes on with a bunch of nested directories… seriously wtf?

Stuart

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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vendor-directory-wtf/108036/2 "2007-06-28T16:26:41Z")

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Are you using an IDE by any chance? I seem to remember RadRails choking  
on me about a year ago and doing some crazy things to my directory  
structure.

stewbawka [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:  
Hey all,

Working on a little rails app and was gonna install backgroundrb for  
something… tried to go into the vendor/plugins dir and plugins wasn’t  
there! my app was created with a normal rails appname command… i  
tried making another and the same thing happened… where do i put my  
backgroundrb plugin now? that’s not all… to make matters even more  
perplexing inside vendor there’s a bunch of ‘activexxxxxx’ folders and  
a rails folder… in the rails folder there’s the same directories and  
it goes on with a bunch of nested directories… seriously wtf?

Stuart

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**Author:** ![stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@stewbawka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stewbawka)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-vendor-directory-wtf/108036/3 "2007-06-28T16:38:42Z")

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yup just started using Aptana + Radrails… but i used the rails  
command at the commandline to make the rails tree (it didn’t work for  
me through the IDE)… so the plugins directory should be there? i  
guess i’ll just go ahead and create it. for a sec i thought they  
changed where they stored them.

thanks