Question

I’m trying to install a plugin from the git repo => https://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable .

This is weird but I ran all kinds of things to install it =>

 rails plugin install https://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable.git -force
 rails plugin install git://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable.git --force
 rails plugin install https://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable.git/ --force
 rails plugin install https://github.com/maccman/acts-as-recommendable.git --force

but the console doesnt show any files being added….. The vendor/plugins/ folder has an acts_as_recommendable nothing in it.

So I thought why not just try to download all the files and install them manually?

My question is where should I place the files? So…

=> There is a /lib folder with the plugins main logic files (acts_as_recommendable.rb, cache_fix.rb, optimization.rb, progress_bar.rb)

=> a /tasks folder with a rake file called (acts_as_recommendable_tasks.rake)

=> a /test folder with all the basic testing files

=> a rake file

and => a file called init.rb which has the ‘requires’ for the rb’s in the /lib folder.

Where do I put all these?

should I throw all of them in the /vendor/plugins/acts_as_recommendable/ folder?

or add the files in the /lib to the main rails /lib folder, etc (but where does the init.rb file go?)

Has anyone tried installing these files manually and using the plugins this way?

Answer 1

At a quick glance it may be that the plugin is not Rails 3 compatible – see https://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable/commit/03a99454431cd09f8b5b755fcf04b3838eda80e0

http://railsplugins.org/ is a good source for compatible Rails 3 plugins.