We’ve been doing some early (or late… if you’re a half-full kind of
person) spring cleaning on some of our projects. One of the small
projects,
flash_message_conductor,
which we released last year as a
plugin
is now a gem. We’ve been moving away from using plugins in favor of
gems
as we like locking in specific released versions and being able to
specify them in our environment.rb file is quite convenient.
To install, just run the following:
```
sudo gem install flash-message-conductor --source=http://gemcutter.org
Successfully installed flash-message-conductor-1.0.0
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for flash-message-conductor-1.0.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for flash-message-conductor-1.0.0...
```
You’ll then just need to include the following in your
config/environment.rb file.
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|{lang=”ruby”}
# …{lang=”ruby”}
config.gem ‘flash-message-conductor’, :lib => ‘flash_message_conductor’, :source => “http://gemcutter.org”{lang=”ruby”}
end{lang=”ruby”}\
You can take a peak at the README for usage examples.
We’ll be packaging up a handful of our various plugins that we reuse on projects and moving them to gems. Stay tuned… :-)
