# Installing Plugins

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/49410>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [February 16, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/49410 "2010-02-16T17:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anthony\_Gardner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Anthony\_Gardner](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Anthony_Gardner)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/49410/1 "2010-02-16T17:20:45Z")

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Coming from Perl and familiar with CPAN, I’d like some info about installing plugins.

Basically, do I trust where the libraries are installed?

For example, I have installed the Liquid plugin (./script/plugin install [http://liquid-markup.googlecode.com/svn/trunk](http://liquid-markup.googlecode.com/svn/trunk) ) and the installation directory is vendor/plugin/svn.

To me, this doesn’t seem to be correct. Surely it should be vendor/plugin/liquid. I don’t want to install libs as gems as I just want them application specific. I also don’t need SVN tips, I know how to rename an installation directory. My question is, what do I trust?

As an aside, I’ve installed RedCloth but I could only find it as a gem, is it possible to install a gem as a plugin? I’ve found these repositories but no joy.

- [Technoweenie](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/)
- [Core Rails](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/)
- [Rails Wiki](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/plugins)
- [Topfunky](http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins)
- [Plugin Directory](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/index)

CIA

-Ants

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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/installing-plugins/49410/2 "2010-02-16T22:08:14Z")

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> the installation directory is vendor/plugin/svn

I've seen that issue myself a couple of times. Never bothered to look into it, I just renamed the folder manually.

> it possible to install a gem as a plugin?

Check out the "gem unpack" command

> I've found these repositories but no joy

github.com and gemcutter.org are the top places to look for RoR plugins/gems. You can install RedCloth as a plugin from github.