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Description: Uber lightweight Merb blogging engine. Make sure you check out the feather-plugins repo as well!
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Building and Installing Plugins

We’ve recently changed the way plugins are distributed. Instead of copying a whole source directory to install a plugin, now we’re using tarballs for distribution, thanks to Alexander Flatter.

So, to create the tarball, just type “rake feather:package path=feather-plugin-name-here”, or “rake feather:package” to do them all.

Next, copy the .yml manifest file, and the .tgz to a publicly accessible location (/public/plugins for instance). When installing the plugin type: http://localhost:4000/plugins/manifest-yml-path-here. It’ll then download the plugin from your local instance, install it, create any necessary database structures, and allow you to activate the plugin. That’s it.

Have at it.

Last edited by jf, Sun Jun 08 07:32:28 -0700 2008
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