Ruby on Rails
HowTosPlugins
- The Rails Plugin Tutorial for the ActiveRecord was written because some details such as mixins were not clearly covered in other tutorials.
- Automating Plugin Builds with Rake provides a Rake task that builds the plug-in package. It conforms to Rail’s plugin installer’s requirements for HTTP distribution of plugins, and simplifies publishing plugins on RubyForge.
Tips
(and some old stuff)
- HowToWritePluginWithModels – You must over-ride a class function in models built in to plugins. If you include an ActiveRecord model with your plugin, read this and spare yourself some pain.