Upgraded to rails 3 and now I can't install plugins

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Hello,    I just upgraded to rails 3 and whenever I try to install a plugin, it acts like it's installing and then when I try to confirm that it was installed by going to the vendor/plugins directory, there's never anything there.

Here's and example of my install code:

rails plugin install https://github.com/Satish/restful-authentication.git

Thanks for any help!

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This is not related to your question… but I don’t believe restful-authentication will work with Rails 3. You could always patch it, but you might be better off choosing a different auth gem.

Why the plugin isn’t installing, I’m not certain.

Phil

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At this point, I am only concerned about getting ANY plugin to work and I just don't understand what the problem could be because I'm not getting any type of errors or strange behavior.

Another piece of information: I'm running all this on a mac-book pro w/ 10.5.8 Leopard.

Thanks for your time!

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Phil

At this point, I am only concerned about getting ANY plugin to work and

I just don’t understand what the problem could be because I’m not

getting any type of errors or strange behavior.

Another piece of information: I’m running all this on a mac-book pro

w/ 10.5.8 Leopard.

Thanks for your time!

For what it’s worth, I rolled up a brand new rails 3 app and tried to install the same plugin; the install worked, it was sitting in vendor/plugins/restful-authentication. So I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be working for you. I’m on OS 10.6.6, but I really don’t think that’s the issue.

Which version of ruby/rails? I know rails 3, but is it 3.0.4? Earlier?

Have you tried other plugins, just to be sure? Also; is everything else working? It seems odd that just this one thing would go wrong.

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A bit more info that might help:

I'm running this:

rails -v Rails 3.0.4

ruby -v ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.8.0]

That ruby version looks pretty cracked out to me - could this be the issue?

Clem Rock wrote in post #983018:

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A bit more info that might help:

I’m running this:

rails -v

Rails 3.0.4

ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.8.0]

That ruby version looks pretty cracked out to me - could this be the

issue?

That version of ruby is probably fine. You could try to upgrade, but I have a hard time thinking that this is the problem.

Out of curiosity: if you create a brand new rails app, just to test, and go there and try to install a plugin, does it work?

One other point to consider: do you even need to worry about this? I don’t think very many plugins are maintained any more; most authors seem to be writing gems instead.

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I can create a new rails app w/ no problem and the app works. I can try to install any plugin in that newly created project but they never exist in vendor/plugins. I also notice there are some other things wrong and I'm worried that something bigger is going on. For instance, when I try to install rvm this way:

bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

I get this:

bash: line 31: git: command not found

ERROR: Cloning from git://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm.git failed, trying via https now (https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm.git). bash: line 35: git: command not found

ERROR: Cloning from https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm.git failed, perhaps your git version does not support the https protocol? out of ideas... halting.

Finally, I still think it's important to install plugins.

Clem Rock wrote in post #983040:

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I can create a new rails app w/ no problem and the app works. I can try to install any plugin in that newly created project but they never exist in vendor/plugins. I also notice there are some other things wrong and I'm worried that something bigger is going on. For instance, when I try to install rvm this way:

bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

I get this:

bash: line 31: git: command not found

Sounds like you don't have git installed (or at least not in your $PATH), which you're going to need for installing plugins from a git repository

Fred

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Yup - problem solved!! Now I'm feeling pretty stupid.

Thanks for your help.

Frederick Cheung wrote in post #983062: