HowTo install plugins from github?

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I am trying to install the in_place_editing plugin from github.

I have looked at http://railswheels.com/in-place-editing and it suggests the following command:

./script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing

I have tried this and nothing happens e.g. './script/plugin list' does not return anything.

Are there some prerequisites that I am overlooking?

Do I have any other options? It concerns me that my ./script/plugin commands do not seem to be working - a result of an upgrade problem perhaps ? ( I have recently upgraded my application to Rails 2.2.2 )

Thanks.

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I have tried issuing the following command:

./script/plugin --verbose install http://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git

and I get:

Plugins will be installed using http git init git pull --depth 1 http://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git

But again, I do not see any plugin under my vendor/plugins directory.

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I should add that I am developing on an Ubuntu system and using svn to manage my code.

4

The command on the site is slightly wrong. You're missing the ".git" at the end. You need to use the full "git clone URL" when installing a plugin. You'll see this link on the project page:

http://github.com/rails/in_place_editing

from which you need to run the command:

script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git

Jason

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Thanks for the response. So I tried:

./script/plugin --verbose install git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git

and the following was output to my console:

Plugins will be installed using http git init git pull --depth 1 git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git

But I still do not see anything in my plugins directory.

What is the 'git' command in the above? Do I need to install this first?

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Hmm, that's odd. It ran perfectly fine for me.

What happens when you do a straight clone of the project ( git clone git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git ) ?

Here's my command and output:

roelofs@trillian (svn) [master]~/proj $ ./script/plugin --verbose install git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git Plugins will be installed using http git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/roelofs/proj/vendor/plugins/in_place_editing/.git/ git pull --depth 1 git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing.git Unpacking objects: 100% (18/18), done. remote: Counting objects: 18, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done. remote: Total 18 (delta 4), reused 17 (delta 4) From git://github.com/rails/in_place_editing * branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD removing: .git

Jason

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Two things are troubling me:

1) I haven't installed any git client software on my Ubuntu machine. That said, I read that script/plugin handles the fetching of code from the git repository and therefore I assume it is not necessary to install any git client software.

2) I have upgraded from Rails 1.2.6 to 2.2.2 (and made the necessary changes to my application) but I am concerned that the script/plugin code is the same that was generated when I first generated my application using Rails 1.2.6, and thus may not support git (as I assume in (1)).

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Oh...

Two things are troubling me:

1) I haven't installed any git client software on my Ubuntu machine. That said, I read that script/plugin handles the fetching of code from the git repository and therefore I assume it is not necessary to install any git client software.

Um, you do need git installed.

Jason

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Um, you do need git installed.

Jason

Hi, like I said in another similar thread, you can simply download the tarball or zipfile and extract the archive in your plugins folder, and the plugin is installed. Installing git is however preferable and easier for future updates.

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This isn't true 100% of the time. Quite a few plugins rely on the installation phase of script/plugin install to push config files / js / css / etc files up into the main Rails workspace. Just untarring into your vendor/plugins does not run this installation process.

Thus, use script/plugin install. Make sure you have the binaries installed for whatever SCM you use (SVN / git / etc).

Jason

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How do I install the git on a mac ? I installed the gitgem as shown in the git guide, but I still failed
in installing plugins from git

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I use a remote subversion repository to manage my application code, and access it through my IDE or the command line using svn client programs.

I assume though that I need to install git client programs (git-core?) in order for script/plugin to be able to retrieve the in_place_editing plugin from the Rails github repository. Correct?

Having retrieved it, I would then add it to my svn repository as I would any file that I create.

Thanks...

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Check http://git-scm.com and see if you can find out more there.

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My 2 cents: the bad news is you need to understand what git does, not just use it. The good news is: here are some resources I wrote about that while learning git for rails: http://harryseldon.thinkosphere.com/2009/01/14/git-and-rails-a-detailed-tutorial-including-plugins-submodules-development-and-production

http://harryseldon.thinkosphere.com/2008/11/08/grand-gardening-with-git

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Success!

I have successfully installed auto_complete and in_place_editing from github.

It was first necessary for me to install the git-core package on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron machine (sudo apt-get install git-core).

Thanks...

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I am having the same issue but on mac (leopard and rails 2.2), I installed git but still I have no success installing plugin from the git site. Any suggestions?

Thanks..

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My experience was even worse. That worse that I started to dislike git a lot. RoR is about keeping things simple and clear: now we have and http, and svn, AND git for installing plugins, and some of it works sometimes, but not always, and you need to install something else first, etc. NOT a good evolution, if this goes on. The best way to make a programming language less populair is make it cluttered, complicated, illogical and unstable. Git is starting to do all that for me. Hope it changes for the better. :frowning:

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And the problem is? I mean, script/plugin install git... works exactly as expected, if you have git installed and it works like it should.

Please state what problem you're having instead of just blatantly bashing something that works for 99% of the people who try to use it.

Jason

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You can get an OSX dmg for Git here:

http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list?can=3

or if you have macports:

$ sudo port install git-core

DZ