# Simply\_helpful, where has it gone?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 10, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451 "2007-06-10T19:19:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/1 "2007-06-10T19:19:28Z")

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Anyone know wahts happened to the simply\_helpful plugin? doesnt seem to  
be in its usual svn location?

[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/simply\_helpful/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/simply_helpful/)

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**Author:** ![mark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mark)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/2 "2007-06-10T20:04:51Z")

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I believed it’s merged into the core now.

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/3 "2007-06-10T20:19:53Z")

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On 10-Jun-07, at 2:04 PM, Tristan Dunn wrote:

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> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).

I think it also happened to resource\_feeder.

Which leads me to wonder what core expects those not on the edge to  
do? Perhaps it’s been overlooked.

Glad I pistoned them!

Jodi

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/4 "2007-06-10T20:48:56Z")

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Well that’s cool if it is, however once ht eplugins are removed from my  
app, I seem to get the following error message for rss feeds.

undefined method `render\_rss\_feed\_for’

which is used here

respond\_to do |format|  
format.html # index.rhtml  
format.xml { render :xml =\> @blogs.to\_xml }  
format.rss {render\_rss\_feed\_for @blogs, blog\_feed\_options}  
end

Anyone know what function name this has been replaced with?

cheers

Tristan Dunn wrote:

> I believed it’s merged into the core now.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/5 "2007-06-11T11:15:17Z")

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Mark wrote:

> Anyone know wahts happened to the simply\_helpful plugin? doesnt seem to  
> be in its usual svn location?
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> [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/simply\_helpful/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/simply_helpful/)

You can still find it.  
David has moved the plugin to  
[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/legacy/simply\_helpful/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/legacy/simply_helpful/)  
unless you go with Edge Rails, where it’s included.

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/6 "2007-06-11T11:15:21Z")

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When they moved it into core, it became legacy, and they have a folder  
for that too:  
[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/legacy/simply\_helpful/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/legacy/simply_helpful/)

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**Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-helpful-where-has-it-gone/106451/7 "2007-06-18T17:38:25Z")

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Try [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/legacy/simply\_helpful/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/legacy/simply_helpful/)

It was moved (along with acts\_as\_taggable and browser\_filters) to the  
legacy directory by DHH as they are now either deprecated or part of  
core).