# Script/plugin update \[plugin\_name\] broken?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-plugin-update-plugin-name-broken/55407>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 20, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-plugin-update-plugin-name-broken/55407 "2006-03-20T21:54:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![cleaner416](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cleaner416](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cleaner416)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-plugin-update-plugin-name-broken/55407/1 "2006-03-20T21:54:21Z")

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I’ve created a couple of plugins for use with some internal projects  
here and stuck them in their own svn repos.

Then I have other svn-stored projects I want to use the plugins with.  
Both the projects and the plugins are updated quite a bit.

So I install the plugin from my project: script/plugin install  
http://\<path\_to\_plugin\_repo\>/\<plugin\_name\>

Then later I commit some changes to the plugin.

So then I go to my project and try to update the plugin: script/plugin  
update \<plugin\_name\>

I get: Updating plugin: \<plugin\_name\>

But the source code of the plugin is NOT updated. What gives?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![cleaner416](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cleaner416](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cleaner416)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-plugin-update-plugin-name-broken/55407/2 "2006-03-21T17:38:49Z")

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Update: I’ve found that grab plugins for use with svn-versioned projects  
is to either manually use svn externals or run script/plugin install -x  
 the first time around.

Thanks to James A.s on the engines dev list.

Lance D. wrote:

> I’ve created a couple of plugins for use with some internal projects  
> here and stuck them in their own svn repos.
> 
> Then I have other svn-stored projects I want to use the plugins with.  
> Both the projects and the plugins are updated quite a bit.
> 
> So I install the plugin from my project: script/plugin install  
> http://\<path\_to\_plugin\_repo\>/\<plugin\_name\>
> 
> Then later I commit some changes to the plugin.
> 
> So then I go to my project and try to update the plugin: script/plugin  
> update \<plugin\_name\>
> 
> I get: Updating plugin: \<plugin\_name\>
> 
> But the source code of the plugin is NOT updated. What gives?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!