Plugin Install from tgz or zip file

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I have a plugin I need to install on my bluehost rails app. Using

./script/plugin install git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git

My command line is giving me no response. It doesn't seem to try or even fail, just the next line in bash show us as though nothing was requested. I just assume bluehost doesn't allow for grabbing git urls, and I don't want to install local gems.

I then decided to download the tarball, and I extracted it, and now I am trying to install the plugin from file... what is the best way to do this? I assume there is an option where I download and extract the tarball to ../recaptcha folder. This folder contains the plugin, init.rb, lib/, test/, etc etc.

script/plugin install -from-file ./recaptcha

I don't see an option in the help files or through some forum searching, anyone know an easy way to do this, or know a good tutorial?

Thanks -Josh

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I have a plugin I need to install on my bluehost rails app. Using

./script/plugin install git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git

My command line is giving me no response. It doesn't seem to try or even fail, just the next line in bash show us as though nothing was requested. I just assume bluehost doesn't allow for grabbing git urls, and I don't want to install local gems.

perhaps git isn't installed ?

I then decided to download the tarball, and I extracted it, and now I am trying to install the plugin from file... what is the best way to do this? I assume there is an option where I download and extract the tarball to ../recaptcha folder. This folder contains the plugin, init.rb, lib/, test/, etc etc.

that's basically all there is to it - script/plugin just downloads the data into vendor/plugins/plugin_name and then runs the plugin's install.rb file if it has one (more often than not there isn't one)

Fred

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Hi Josh    Actually what you extracted from the tar is the plugin itself. No need to install it. Just move it to vendors/plugin folder

    Or

As Marnen Laibow-Koser said install the git client and then from the same vendor/plugin folder type

git-clone git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git

Sijo

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Sijo Kg wrote:

Hi Josh    Actually what you extracted from the tar is the plugin itself. No need to install it. Just move it to vendors/plugin folder

No! Many plugins have an init.rb script that will be run by script/plugin install. Straight copying will not always install a plugin properly.

Best,

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Concluding: (1) Just copy the plugin contents to the vendor/plugin folder. (2) execute the init.rb script with ruby.

That has worked for me so far, as retrieving from git, with Windows this is still a pain to do. There are other topics in this mailinglist about it :wink: