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Plugin architecture on your self-hosted rails app?

by help me —

I am working on a Rails app that I am looking to distribute, however, I want it to have a flexible plugin architecture. ala Wordpress or Lussumo Vanilla. Can someone point me in the right direction to get started with something like this? Thanks.

Comments

Redmine has plugins and is open source. The architecture isn’t too bad last I checked, so that might give you some ideas.

Brian —

Try gem_plugin, which is distributed as a standalone gem, although mongrel uses it internally. It’s not Rails-specific, though, and gem_plugin doesn’t support nested dependencies (A->B->C). Yet?

Brendan —

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