how to remove a plugin installed with script/plugin install -x

Phlip · March 7, 2007, 3:03am

Railsters:

The -x option sets your plugin up as an svn:external, to track updates automatically.

I tried to remove a plugin, and got this:

$ svn rm naugty-plugin/ --force D naughty-plugin/... ... svn: 'naughty-plugin' is not under version control

That's not a good sign. Then I svn ci my project, cap deploy it, and the plugin (and its ill effects) are still on the server.

How to croak an svn:externalled plugin?

Jodi1 · March 7, 2007, 3:22am

Phillip, what does svn status tell you? Is the plugin listed as an external, ala:

X vendor/plugins/naughty-plugin

if it doesn't show up this way, then it's not an external defined entry.

svn propedit svn:externals vendor/plugins

will allow you to edit the externals directly.

Is it possible that you ran svn remove from the project root? and not svn remove vendor/plugins/naughty-plugin?

hopefully the above gets you further ahead. I'm hitting the hay now - l8r.

Cheers, Jodi General Partner The nNovation Group inc. www.nnovation.ca/blog

Phlip · March 7, 2007, 3:50am

Jodi Showers wrote:

X vendor/plugins/naughty-plugin

Yep.

svn propedit svn:externals vendor/plugins

will allow you to edit the externals directly.

Google for that, aaaand here's the tip:

The svn propedit svn:externals . --editor-cmd vi done it.

New question: Should that file contain this?

plugin ./script/plugin

I nuked it too, cap deploy, and the naughty-plugin didn't follow me home this time!

I been banging on my plugins too much, huh?!

Jodi1 · March 7, 2007, 3:45pm

no it shouldn't. ( I gather you ran that cmd from RAILS_ROOT? )

the format of the externals file is

directory external_path

for instance (all commands run from RAILS_ROOT)

imac:~/Documents/dev/zoop jodi$ svn propget svn:externals vendor/plugins savage_beast http://svn.nnovation.ca/svn/savage_beast/trunk

means thtere's a directory under vendor/plugins called 'savage_beast' that is externally linked to the url above.

one more note, you can use textmate to handled all svn propedits read:

cheers, Jodi