css and js in plugins

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I want to package some stuff as a plugin for convenience and it works fine.

The only trouble is that there is some javascript and a css that are required and I have been copying them manually to the public folder.

Is there a better way to deal with css and js files in plugins?

Cheers George

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Engines work really well for this. If it’s for personal use, then all you’d need to do is add the engines plugin. Otherwise, you could have a File copy script in your init.rb that copies it over every time the plugin is launched, in other words, when the server starts up.