Rubygems support for rails plugins (patch)

Rails
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Rails committers, (feedback from others welcome)

Would you accept a patch–in principle, obviously the implementation
matters–that would:

  1. allow Rails to load a plugin from gem
  2. permit the plugin script to install them
  3. give the plugin generator’s default Rake file the ability to
    package and publish a gem
  4. introduce freeze/unfreeze for plugins

Why?

  • RubyGems’s handling of dependencies and updates is mature.
  • When I am writing my own plugin I want the source in my project, but
    when I am using other people’s code I want to express that as an
    application dependency.
  • Some Rails plugins have a life outside of Rails, e.g. models that
    get used by non Rails apps.

Thanks,

John-Mason Shackelford

Software Developer
Pearson Educational Measurement

2510 North Dodge St.
Iowa City, IA 52245
ph. 319-354-9200x6214
[email protected]
http://pearsonedmeasurement.com