# installing plugins

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/25964>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [March 7, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/25964 "2008-03-07T06:47:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Olsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@Eric\_Olsen](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Eric_Olsen)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/25964/1 "2008-03-07T06:47:12Z")

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A couple of simple questions about plugins:

1. Is the rapt plugin installer tool actively in use? I like the idea of the plugin pack and keyword searching, but it doesn't seem like there is much activity on this project since it was posted a couple of years ago. Perhaps it has been obsoleted by developments with script/ plugin?

2. Some of the plugins out there have the source located in the svn "trunk" directory. When you install such a thing using "ruby script/ plugin install svn://blah.com/pluginname/trunk" (for example), then you end up with a a plugin called "trunk" in vendor/plugins. This seems less than ideal. Is there some way to name the plugin directory when it is installed?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

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**Author:** ![Frederick\_Cheung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/frederick_cheung/32/3901_2.png) [@Frederick\_Cheung](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Frederick_Cheung)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/25964/2 "2008-03-07T09:31:14Z")

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> A couple of simple questions about plugins:
> 
> 1. Is the rapt plugin installer tool actively in use? I like the idea of the plugin pack and keyword searching, but it doesn't seem like there is much activity on this project since it was posted a couple of years ago. Perhaps it has been obsoleted by developments with script/ plugin?

dunno

> 2. Some of the plugins out there have the source located in the svn "trunk" directory. When you install such a thing using "ruby script/ plugin install svn://blah.com/pluginname/trunk" (for example), then you end up with a a plugin called "trunk" in vendor/plugins. This seems less than ideal. Is there some way to name the plugin directory when it is installed?

script/plugin doesn't do anything very magic. You could just check it out yourself or rename it after it's been installed.

Fred