tag:opensoul.org,2009:/2009/10/5/how-to-gemify-your-rails-plugins/comments Mephisto Drax 2009-11-08T14:43:19Z Brandon tag:opensoul.org,2009-10-05:17997:18644 2009-11-08T14:43:19Z 2009-11-08T14:43:19Z <p>Anonymous: I do not delete legitimate comments. Akismet must have thought it was spam. Although, it’s curious that you posted your comment anonymously.</p> <p>I’m surprised this is such a heated topic and that people have had so many issues. We’ve used gems as much as possible since Rails 2.2, and haven’t really had any issues.</p> Anonymous tag:opensoul.org,2009-10-05:17997:18640 2009-11-08T12:28:01Z 2009-11-08T12:28:01Z <p>Wow you actually deleted my comment? All I said was that gems are a pain since Rails 2.2, but if you want to stick your head in the sand and pretend they are perfect knock yourself out. Plugins <span class="caps">FTW</span> till Rails 3!</p> Trent Martin tag:opensoul.org,2009-10-05:17997:18627 2009-11-07T16:27:22Z 2009-11-07T16:27:22Z <p>Personally, I’ve had all sorts of problems with gems, especially since Rails 2.2. Something about the way the environment is invoked has cause me tons of grief whenever using rake to install/unpack gems – dependencies are not loaded properly, or sometimes the dev environment is run <span class="caps">BEFORE</span> requiring gems, which in turn forces me to comment out gem-specific code in my app, just to install the damn things.</p> <p>Plugins have <span class="caps">NEVER</span> given me any kind of problems – pretty damn rock-solid here. Gem integration in Rails is inherently broken, and Yehuda Katz knows it, which is why Bundler will be the new standard – hopefully it will iron out all of the kinks, cause I’m pretty damn tired of this ghetto setup!</p> Daniel Morrison tag:opensoul.org,2009-10-05:17997:18002 2009-10-05T23:48:09Z 2009-10-05T23:48:09Z <p>Joe: I know what you mean about gem versions being an annoyance, but that was the past. Now by specifying the gem version, you always know what you’re getting and installing other versions won’t have any effect.</p> Joe Van Dyk tag:opensoul.org,2009-10-05:17997:18001 2009-10-05T22:31:36Z 2009-10-05T22:31:36Z <p>Really? I’ve been putting gems into my Rails projects as plugins. I always ran into problems if Project A required version X of a gem and Project B required version Y. Problems went away if the gem was installed a plugin.</p>