Plugins within plugins

Rails Engines
1

can a plugin have a vendor/plugins directory within it and have that
automatically used?

I’m wondering if I have plugin A that depends on plugin B/C if I have to
install B/C in every project that uses A or if I can just install it
within
A once and then only install A in my projects that use A.

Thanks

2

The engines plugin won’t do anything to load a plugin containing a
vendor/plugin directory, but it should be relatively trivial to create
such a directory, and then add the plugin lib dirs to the load path
and require the necessary files within the ‘top-level’ plugin’s
init.rb

HTH,

James

3

Rails implements locating plugins as a strategy:

http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/railties/lib/rails/plugin/locator.rb

So, this seems to be a natural place to hook in.

Although I’m not sure if that’s a good idea, really :slight_smile:

On 18.07.2008, at 09:09, James A. wrote:

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Miles G. [email protected]

Thanks

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