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Heading for Github

I've been using Git for a few months now, so I'm happy to say that the engines plugin development is going to be heading over to GitHub in the near future.

Posted by James Adam on Apr 28, 2008

Engines 2.0 (ish)

Hi all,

Just a quick note to let you know, should it be relevant, that we're readied a new release of the Engines plugin, revamped and ready for Rails 2.0, and would absolutely love for you to start using it and sending feedback about what's broken, what's missing and what could be improved.

Grab the plugin here, check out the README, and find out more after the cut...

Posted by James Adam on Dec 11, 2007

Plugems, Welcome!

Revolution on Rails have finally released their solution to shared dependencies between Rails applications, which they have called Plugems (see what they've done there?). In their announcement they discuss some of the differences between plugins, "engines" (ahem!) and Plugems, and I think they've raised some interesting points.

Posted by James Adam on May 02, 2007

Engines 1.2 Released

I've just pushed the 1.2 release of the engines plugin forward as the official release found by script/plugin. The 1.2 release is compatible with Rails 1.2, and undoubtedly the best release so far. It's never been easier to make your plugins more powerful, and I'm very happy with some of the new features 1.2 gives, including routes in plugins and a new "best-practise" for sharing migrations.

Engines are dead...

The new 1.2 release also represents a psychological "reboot" for the engines plugin. Thanks to some of the features we managed to contribute to Rails itself, any plugin can be enhanced by the engines plugin. This is the final blow to the unfortunate misunderstanding that "engines are evil", because there's literally no such thing as "an engine" anymore. The engines plugin is just a plugin that makes other plugins more powerful.

Below the cut you can read about some of the enhancements that the engines plugin contributes to making sharing code amongst your projects even simpler.

Posted by James Adam on Feb 04, 2007

Farewell, login_engine.

While I prepare for the upcoming release of the engines plugin 1.2 release, I should also add that the "login engine" and "user engine" won't be joining us on the journey to 1.2.

Posted by James Adam on Jan 23, 2007