# plugins

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/plugins/32008>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/plugins/32008 "2008-07-17T20:52:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![friar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@friar](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/friar)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/plugins/32008/1 "2008-07-17T20:52:01Z")

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Hi:

Wondering if anyone can help me. I am having terrible problems installing plugins for my rails app. Tried to install simply\_searchable and all it did was create a folder in the plugins directory. I do not have subversion, I was trying to install acts\_as\_ferret but that didn't work either, even said it was installed, but it is not there, just an empty directory. Actaully I am just looking for a simple way to put a search form to search for records in my database, but everything I try doesn't work. Tried the simple search at the wiki, but all that did was generate a no method error. Very fustrating. Any help would be appreciated. I am a rails newbie.

Thanks Brian

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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:** [July 18, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/plugins/32008/2 "2008-07-18T23:33:14Z")

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For most plugins, installing just means copying some files into vendor/plugins. By default script/plugin install will just try and do an svn checkout or export so not having subversion could easily kill it. Have you tried installing subversion ? You might need the actual binaries rather than something like tortoisesvn

Fred