# Standard way of downloading & using rails standard plugins

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-way-of-downloading-using-rails-standard-plugins/63140>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 12, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-way-of-downloading-using-rails-standard-plugins/63140 "2006-06-12T17:33:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/medha)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-way-of-downloading-using-rails-standard-plugins/63140/1 "2006-06-12T17:33:41Z")

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Hi,

I am a newbie to ruby & rails.  
Can anybody give me some inputs as to how to download & use standard  
rails  
plugins.

Any help regarding this will be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/medha)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-way-of-downloading-using-rails-standard-plugins/63140/2 "2006-06-12T17:46:08Z")

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You can use the command-line script ‘plugin’ in the scripts directory  
of your rails app to install plugins. You can find available plugins  
at the rails plugin directory at [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/)  
plugins and run ./script/plugin install .

–  
Benjamin C.  
[http://www.bencurtis.com/](http://www.bencurtis.com/)  
[http://www.tesly.com/](http://www.tesly.com/) – Collaborative test case management  
[http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/) – Resources for the Rails community

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**Author:** ![medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/medha)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-way-of-downloading-using-rails-standard-plugins/63140/3 "2006-06-12T18:55:24Z")

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On 6/12/06, Benjamin C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> You can use the command-line script ‘plugin’ in the scripts directory  
> of your rails app to install plugins. You can find available plugins  
> at the rails plugin directory at [http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/)  
> plugins and run ./script/plugin install .

Have you done any work on integrating your plugin repository with the  
plugin  
script? It seems like with your XML API we could get away from the  
“scrape”  
step and have plugin install directly query [awd.com](http://awd.com).

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@medha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/medha)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/standard-way-of-downloading-using-rails-standard-plugins/63140/4 "2006-06-12T19:38:48Z")

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I haven’t had a chance to do it yet, but the plan is to have it done  
eventually.

–  
Benjamin C.  
[http://www.bencurtis.com/](http://www.bencurtis.com/)  
[http://www.tesly.com/](http://www.tesly.com/) – Collaborative test case management  
[http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/) – Resources for the Rails community