plugin_assets: nice, but breaks
2006-11-10
Aaron, of PluginAWeek fame, released PluginAssets.
This plugin handles copying assets from your plugins to your public/ folder. I decided to give it a whirl, since I needed it for a plugin I’m writing.
I use Piston to manage my external dependencies, so I simply Pistoned the code from Aaron’s repository:
1 $ piston import \ 2 http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/action_pack/plugin_assets \ 3 vendor/plugins/plugin_assets 4 Exported r85 from 'http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/action_pack/plugin_assets' to 'vendor/plugins/plugin_assets' 5 6 $ rake assets:update 7 (in D:/wwwroot/staging.teksol.info) 8 rake aborted! 9 undefined method `require_plugin' for #<Object:0x27bfa3c> 10 11 (See full trace by running task with --trace)
Oops, not good… So, two dependencies later:
1 $ piston import \ 2 http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/rails/loaded_plugins \ 3 vendor/plugins/loaded_plugins 4 Exported r85 from 'http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/rails/loaded_plugins' to 'vendor/plugins/loaded_plugins' 5 6 $ piston import \ 7 http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/rails/plugin_dependencies \ 8 vendor/plugins/plugin_dependencies 9 Exported r85 from 'http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/rails/plugin_dependencies' to 'vendor/plugins/plugin_dependencies' 10 11 $ rake --trace assets:update 12 (in D:/staging.teksol.info) 13 ** Invoke assets:update (first_time) 14 ** Invoke environment (first_time) 15 ** Execute environment 16 rake aborted! 17 undefined method `require_plugin' for #<Object:0x27bfa3c> 18 D:/staging.teksol.info/config/../vendor/plugins/plugin_assets/lib/plugin_assets.rb:1
Whoa, this is even worse. I have to apply a known “workaround” to get plugin_assets to load:
1 $ mv vendor/plugins/plugin_dependencies \ 2 vendor/plugins/aaa_plugin_dependencies 3 $ mv vendor/plugins/loaded_plugins \ 4 vendor/plugins/aaa_loaded_plugins 5 $ rake assets:update 6 (in D:/wwwroot/staging.teksol.info) 7 8 Mirroring assets for link_with_icon: 9 ...
It does look like the dependencies aren’t well considered here. Mind you, Aaron is doing a fantastic job.
Update 2006-11-10 3 PM EDT: Aaron did a nice job of reworking the code to not require as many dependencies. Read Revisited: plugin_assets and loaded_plugins for the details.
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