Create a Plugin or a Gem? e.g. - will_paginate

[John Honovich]

I noticed that will_paginate is now being distributed as a plugin. In
the readme, it states:

"You should switch to using the gem:

gem install will_paginate

After that, you can remove the plugin from your application and add
a simple require to the end of config/environment.rb:

require 'will_paginate'"

I am want to reuse code and am trying to understand the advantages of
using a gem vs a plugin. I thought the "rails way" is to use plugins
but now that I see will_paginate is using a gem, I am trying to
understand what advantages gem distributions have for use in rails
projects?

Thank you,

John
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[Xie Hanjian]

Same question here. I think plugin is better because it's 'freezed' in
your code base so easier to deploy to production environment. What's
the advantage of using gem?

Thanks
Jan

* John Honovich <rails-mai...@andreas-s.net> [2008-04-19 21:01:06 +0200]:

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[Michael Guterl]

http://gemsonrails.rubyforge.org - Great for freezing gems to vendor
for ease of deployment to production.

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Xie Hanjian <jan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Same question here. I think plugin is better because it's 'freezed' in
> your code base so easier to deploy to production environment. What's
> the advantage of using gem?
>
> Thanks
> Jan
>
> * John Honovich <rails-mai...@andreas-s.net> [2008-04-19 21:01:06 +0200]:
>
>
>
> >
> > I noticed that will_paginate is now being distributed as a plugin. In
> > the readme, it states:
> >
> > "You should switch to using the gem:
> >
> > gem install will_paginate
> >
> > After that, you can remove the plugin from your application and add
> > a simple require to the end of config/environment.rb:
> >
> > require 'will_paginate'"
> >
> >
> > I am want to reuse code and am trying to understand the advantages of
> > using a gem vs a plugin. I thought the "rails way" is to use plugins
> > but now that I see will_paginate is using a gem, I am trying to
> > understand what advantages gem distributions have for use in rails
> > projects?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > John
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> > > >
>