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+ <p>Rails 3.1 ships with a <tt>rails plugin new</tt> command which creates a
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+ skeleton for developing any kind of Rails extension with the ability
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+ to run integration tests using a dummy Rails application. See usage
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+ and options by asking for help:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ $ rails plugin --help
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <h3 id="testing-your-newly-generated-plugin">2 Testing your newly generated plugin</h3>
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+ <p>You can navigate to the directory that contains the plugin, run the <tt>bundle install</tt> command
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+ and run the one generated test using the <tt>rake</tt> command.</p>
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+ <p>You should see:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 2 tests, 2 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>This will tell you that everything got generated properly and you are ready to start adding functionality.</p>
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+ <h3 id="extending-core-classes">3 Extending Core Classes</h3>
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+ <p>This section will explain how to add a method to String that will be available anywhere in your rails application.</p>
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+ <p>In this example you will add a method to String named <tt>to_squawk</tt>. To begin, create a new test file with a few assertions:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/test/core_ext_test.rb
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+
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+ require 'test_helper'
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+
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+ class CoreExtTest &lt; Test::Unit::TestCase
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+ def test_to_squawk_prepends_the_word_squawk
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+ assert_equal &quot;squawk! Hello World&quot;, &quot;Hello World&quot;.to_squawk
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+ end
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Run <tt>rake</tt> to run the test. This test should fail because we haven&#8217;t implemented the <tt>to_squawk</tt> method:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 1) Error:
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+ test_to_squawk_prepends_the_word_squawk(CoreExtTest):
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+ NoMethodError: undefined method `to_squawk' for &quot;Hello World&quot;:String
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+ test/core_ext_test.rb:5:in `test_to_squawk_prepends_the_word_squawk'
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Great &#8211; now you are ready to start development.</p>
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+ <p>Then in <tt>lib/yaffle.rb</tt> require <tt>lib/core_ext</tt>:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle.rb
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+
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+ require &quot;yaffle/core_ext&quot;
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+
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+ module Yaffle
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Finally, create the <tt>core_ext.rb</tt> file and add the <tt>to_squawk</tt> method:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle/core_ext.rb
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+
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+ String.class_eval do
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+ def to_squawk
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+ &quot;squawk! #{self}&quot;.strip
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+ end
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>To test that your method does what it says it does, run the unit tests with <tt>rake</tt> from your plugin directory.</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 3 tests, 3 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>To see this in action, change to the test/dummy directory, fire up a console and start squawking:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ $ rails console
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+ &gt;&gt; &quot;Hello World&quot;.to_squawk
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+ =&gt; &quot;squawk! Hello World&quot;
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <h3 id="add-an-acts_as-method-to-active-record">4 Add an &#8220;acts_as&#8221; Method to Active Record</h3>
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+ <p>A common pattern in plugins is to add a method called &#8216;acts_as_something&#8217; to models. In this case, you
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+ want to write a method called &#8216;acts_as_yaffle&#8217; that adds a &#8216;squawk&#8217; method to your Active Record models.</p>
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+ <p>To begin, set up your files so that you have:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb
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+
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+ require 'test_helper'
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+
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+ class ActsAsYaffleTest &lt; Test::Unit::TestCase
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle.rb
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+
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+ require &quot;yaffle/core_ext&quot;
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+ require 'yaffle/acts_as_yaffle'
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+
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+ module Yaffle
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle/acts_as_yaffle.rb
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+
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+ module Yaffle
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+ module ActsAsYaffle
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+ # your code will go here
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+ end
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <h4 id="add-a-class-method">4.1 Add a Class Method</h4>
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+ <p>This plugin will expect that you&#8217;ve added a method to your model named &#8216;last_squawk&#8217;. However, the
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+ plugin users might have already defined a method on their model named &#8216;last_squawk&#8217; that they use
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+ for something else. This plugin will allow the name to be changed by adding a class method called &#8216;yaffle_text_field&#8217;.</p>
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+ <p>To start out, write a failing test that shows the behavior you&#8217;d like:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb
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+
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+ require 'test_helper'
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+
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+ class ActsAsYaffleTest &lt; Test::Unit::TestCase
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+
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+ def test_a_hickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_squawk
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+ assert_equal &quot;last_squawk&quot;, Hickwall.yaffle_text_field
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+ end
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+
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+ def test_a_wickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_tweet
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+ assert_equal &quot;last_tweet&quot;, Wickwall.yaffle_text_field
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+ end
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+
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>When you run <tt>rake</tt>, you should see the following:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 1) Error:
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+ test_a_hickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_squawk(ActsAsYaffleTest):
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+ NameError: uninitialized constant ActsAsYaffleTest::Hickwall
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+ test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb:6:in `test_a_hickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_squawk'
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+
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+ 2) Error:
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+ test_a_wickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_tweet(ActsAsYaffleTest):
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+ NameError: uninitialized constant ActsAsYaffleTest::Wickwall
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+ test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb:10:in `test_a_wickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_tweet'
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+
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+ 5 tests, 3 assertions, 0 failures, 2 errors, 0 skips
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>This tells us that we don&#8217;t have the necessary models (Hickwall and Wickwall) that we are trying to test.
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+ We can easily generate these models in our &#8220;dummy&#8221; Rails application by running the following commands from the
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+ test/dummy directory:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ $ cd test/dummy
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+ $ rails generate model Hickwall last_squawk:string
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+ $ rails generate model Wickwall last_squawk:string last_tweet:string
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Now you can create the necessary database tables in your testing database by navigating to your dummy app
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+ and migrating the database. First</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ $ cd test/dummy
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+ $ rake db:migrate
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+ $ rake db:test:prepare
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>While you are here, change the Hickwall and Wickwall models so that they know that they are supposed to act
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+ like yaffles.</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # test/dummy/app/models/hickwall.rb
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+
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+ class Hickwall &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
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+ acts_as_yaffle
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+ end
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+
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+ # test/dummy/app/models/wickwall.rb
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+
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+ class Wickwall &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
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+ acts_as_yaffle :yaffle_text_field =&gt; :last_tweet
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>We will also add code to define the acts_as_yaffle method.</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle/acts_as_yaffle.rb
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+ module Yaffle
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+ module ActsAsYaffle
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+ extend ActiveSupport::Concern
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+
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+ included do
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+ end
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+
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+ module ClassMethods
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+ def acts_as_yaffle(options = {})
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+ # your code will go here
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, Yaffle::ActsAsYaffle
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>You can then return to the root directory (<tt>cd ../..</tt>) of your plugin and rerun the tests using <tt>rake</tt>.</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 1) Error:
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+ test_a_hickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_squawk(ActsAsYaffleTest):
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+ NoMethodError: undefined method `yaffle_text_field' for #&lt;Class:0x000001016661b8&gt;
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+ /Users/xxx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136@xxx/gems/activerecord-3.0.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1008:in `method_missing'
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+ test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb:5:in `test_a_hickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_squawk'
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+
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+ 2) Error:
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+ test_a_wickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_tweet(ActsAsYaffleTest):
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+ NoMethodError: undefined method `yaffle_text_field' for #&lt;Class:0x00000101653748&gt;
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+ Users/xxx/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136@xxx/gems/activerecord-3.0.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1008:in `method_missing'
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+ test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb:9:in `test_a_wickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_tweet'
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+
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+ 5 tests, 3 assertions, 0 failures, 2 errors, 0 skips
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Getting closer&#8230; Now we will implement the code of the acts_as_yaffle method to make the tests pass.</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle/acts_as_yaffle.rb
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+
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+ module Yaffle
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+ module ActsAsYaffle
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+ extend ActiveSupport::Concern
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+
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+ included do
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+ end
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+
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+ module ClassMethods
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+ def acts_as_yaffle(options = {})
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+ cattr_accessor :yaffle_text_field
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+ self.yaffle_text_field = (options[:yaffle_text_field] || :last_squawk).to_s
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, Yaffle::ActsAsYaffle
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>When you run <tt>rake</tt> you should see the tests all pass:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 5 tests, 5 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <h4 id="add-an-instance-method">4.2 Add an Instance Method</h4>
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+ <p>This plugin will add a method named &#8216;squawk&#8217; to any Active Record object that calls &#8216;acts_as_yaffle&#8217;. The &#8216;squawk&#8217;
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+ method will simply set the value of one of the fields in the database.</p>
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+ <p>To start out, write a failing test that shows the behavior you&#8217;d like:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/test/acts_as_yaffle_test.rb
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+ require 'test_helper'
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+
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+ class ActsAsYaffleTest &lt; Test::Unit::TestCase
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+
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+ def test_a_hickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_squawk
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+ assert_equal &quot;last_squawk&quot;, Hickwall.yaffle_text_field
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+ end
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+
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+ def test_a_wickwalls_yaffle_text_field_should_be_last_tweet
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+ assert_equal &quot;last_tweet&quot;, Wickwall.yaffle_text_field
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+ end
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+
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+ def test_hickwalls_squawk_should_populate_last_squawk
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+ hickwall = Hickwall.new
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+ hickwall.squawk(&quot;Hello World&quot;)
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+ assert_equal &quot;squawk! Hello World&quot;, hickwall.last_squawk
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+ end
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+
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+ def test_wickwalls_squawk_should_populate_last_tweet
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+ wickwall = Wickwall.new
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+ wickwall.squawk(&quot;Hello World&quot;)
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+ assert_equal &quot;squawk! Hello World&quot;, wickwall.last_tweet
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+ end
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+ end
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Run the test to make sure the last two tests fail with an error that contains &#8220;NoMethodError: undefined method `squawk&#8217;&#8221;,
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+ then update &#8216;acts_as_yaffle.rb&#8217; to look like this:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/lib/yaffle/acts_as_yaffle.rb
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+
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+ module Yaffle
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+ module ActsAsYaffle
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+ extend ActiveSupport::Concern
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+
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+ included do
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+ end
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+
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+ module ClassMethods
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+ def acts_as_yaffle(options = {})
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+ cattr_accessor :yaffle_text_field
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+ self.yaffle_text_field = (options[:yaffle_text_field] || :last_squawk).to_s
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ def squawk(string)
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+ write_attribute(self.class.yaffle_text_field, string.to_squawk)
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+ end
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+
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+ end
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+ end
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+
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+ ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, Yaffle::ActsAsYaffle
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>Run <tt>rake</tt> one final time and you should see:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ 7 tests, 7 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <div class="note"><p>The use of <tt>write_attribute</tt> to write to the field in model is just one example of how a plugin can interact with the model, and will not always be the right method to use. For example, you could also use <tt>send(&#8220;#{self.class.yaffle_text_field}=&#8221;, string.to_squawk)</tt>.</p></div>
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+ <h3 id="generators">5 Generators</h3>
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+ <p>Generators can be included in your gem simply by creating them in a lib/generators directory of your plugin. More information about
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+ the creation of generators can be found in the <a href="generators.html">Generators Guide</a></p>
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+ <h3 id="publishing-your-gem">6 Publishing your Gem</h3>
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+ <p>Gem plugins currently in development can easily be shared from any Git repository. To share the Yaffle gem with others, simply
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+ commit the code to a Git repository (like Github) and add a line to the Gemfile of the application in question:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ gem 'yaffle', :git =&gt; 'git://github.com/yaffle_watcher/yaffle.git'
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>After running <tt>bundle install</tt>, your gem functionality will be available to the application.</p>
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+ <p>When the gem is ready to be shared as a formal release, it can be published to <a href="http://www.rubygems.org">RubyGems</a>.
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+ For more information about publishing gems to RubyGems, see: <a href="http://blog.thepete.net/2010/11/creating-and-publishing-your-first-ruby.html">http://blog.thepete.net/2010/11/creating-and-publishing-your-first-ruby.html</a></p>
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+ <h3 id="non-gem-plugins">7 Non-Gem Plugins</h3>
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+ <p>Non-gem plugins are useful for functionality that won&#8217;t be shared with another project. Keeping your custom functionality in the
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+ vendor/plugins directory un-clutters the rest of the application.</p>
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+ <p>Move the directory that you created for the gem based plugin into the vendor/plugins directory of a generated Rails application, create a vendor/plugins/yaffle/init.rb file that contains &#8220;require &#8216;yaffle&#8217;&#8221; and everything will still work.</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: ruby; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ # yaffle/init.rb
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+
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+ require 'yaffle'
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>You can test this by changing to the Rails application that you added the plugin to and starting a rails console. Once in the
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+ console we can check to see if the String has an instance method to_squawk:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ $ cd my_app
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+ $ rails console
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+ $ &quot;Rails plugins are easy!&quot;.to_squawk
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <p>You can also remove the .gemspec, Gemfile and Gemfile.lock files as they will no longer be needed.</p>
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+ <h3 id="rdoc-documentation">8 RDoc Documentation</h3>
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+ <p>Once your plugin is stable and you are ready to deploy do everyone else a favor and document it! Luckily, writing documentation for your plugin is easy.</p>
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+ <p>The first step is to update the <span class="caps">README</span> file with detailed information about how to use your plugin. A few key things to include are:</p>
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+ <ul>
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+ <li>Your name</li>
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+ <li>How to install</li>
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+ <li>How to add the functionality to the app (several examples of common use cases)</li>
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+ <li>Warnings, gotchas or tips that might help users and save them time</li>
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+ </ul>
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+ <p>Once your <span class="caps">README</span> is solid, go through and add rdoc comments to all of the methods that developers will use. It&#8217;s also customary to add &#8216;#:nodoc:&#8217; comments to those parts of the code that are not included in the public api.</p>
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+ <p>Once your comments are good to go, navigate to your plugin directory and run:</p>
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+ <div class="code_container">
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+ <pre class="brush: plain; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
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+ $ rake rdoc
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+ </pre>
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+ </div>
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+ <h4 id="references">8.1 References</h4>
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+ <ul>
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+ <li><a href="https://github.com/radar/guides/blob/master/gem-development.md">Developing a RubyGem using Bundler</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://yehudakatz.com/2010/04/02/using-gemspecs-as-intended/">Using Gemspecs As Intended</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20">Gemspec Reference</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://www.mbleigh.com/2008/06/11/gemplugins-a-brief-introduction-to-the-future-of-rails-plugins">GemPlugins</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://daddy.platte.name/2007/05/rails-plugins-keep-initrb-thin.html">Keeping init.rb thin</a></li>
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+ </ul>
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+
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+ <h3>Feedback</h3>
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+ <p>
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+ You're encouraged to help improve the quality of this guide.
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+ </p>
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+ <p>
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+ If you see any typos or factual errors you are confident to
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+ patch, please clone <a href="https://github.com/lifo/docrails">docrails</a>
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+ and push the change yourself. That branch of Rails has public write access.
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+ Commits are still reviewed, but that happens after you've submitted your
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+ contribution. <a href="https://github.com/lifo/docrails">docrails</a> is
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+ cross-merged with master periodically.
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+ </p>
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+ <p>
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+ You may also find incomplete content, or stuff that is not up to date.
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+ Please do add any missing documentation for master. Check the
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+ <a href="ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.html">Ruby on Rails Guides Guidelines</a>
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+ for style and conventions.
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+ </p>
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+ <p>
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+ If for whatever reason you spot something to fix but cannot patch it yourself, please
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+ <a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/issues">open an issue</a>.
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+ </p>
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+ <p>And last but not least, any kind of discussion regarding Ruby on Rails
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+ documentation is very welcome in the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-docs">rubyonrails-docs mailing list</a>.
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