Need help developing a plugin

I'm working on a plugin and I'm having some issues. I'm trying to check in the code so that it is always usable as a plugin for general users. So my stylesheets, etc. are in an 'assets' directory instead of 'public', etc. (I should also mention I am using the engines plugin.)

During development I have an empty top level project and my plugin is in vendors/plugin. The problem is the IDE's and Rails scripts are all geared towards development in the project root. Any suggestions for a simple way to develop a plugin in the "top level" but still work as a plugin when I check it into SVN? I was thinking there might be some scripts that I could keep local to my machine to set things right. Perhaps alter the server startup script? Or maybe I'm going about this all wrong.

TIA,

Sean

not sure if i understood what you want but it sounds like you might want something like svn:externals

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html

see if that is what you want, and if not, let the group know.

Chris

Hmmm. I hadn't thought of svn:externals (although I've used them - and been burned by them in the past.) I guess if this would purely for developer convenience we could avoid some of the pitfalls of that approach. The biggest problem I've had in the past with externals is keeping them all consistent when branching and tagging. I

Thanks for the tip.

Sean

May be http://piston.rubyforge.org/

OK one problem though is with individual files. svn:externals does not support individual files. Maybe we tweak the server script to copy over these from a different location? Any other suggestions?

Sean