I am developing a plugin that needs to use an external gem, namely docx in order to generate word docs. Is there someway to do this or do I have to append it to the Gemfile?

There is a way to do it. You put the following in your plugin.rb file gem 'omniauth-linkedin-oauth2', '0.1.5' Example of usage: plugin.rb main # frozen_string_literal: true # name: discourse-linkedin-auth # about: Provides the ability to use LinkedIn as a login option. # meta_topic_id: 46818 # version: 1.0 # authors: Matthew Wilkin # url: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-linkedin-auth gem "omniauth-linkedin-oauth2", "1.0.0" register_svg_icon "fab-linkedin" register_asset "stylesheets/common.scss" enabled_site_setting :linkedin_enabled require_relative "lib/linked_in_authenticator" auth_provider authenticator: ::LinkedInAuthenticator.new, icon: "fab-linkedin" This file has been truncated. show original

Thanks, gave it a go but get the following error message: /home/kiffin/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:319:in `to_specs': Could not find 'rubyzip' (~> 1.1.6) among 186 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)

Did you run bundle install after adding the gem?

Yeah on your dev machine you will have to do bundle install. Docker does that for you, I believe.

Gems declared in a plugin are installed and loaded differently as per our implementation: lib/plugin/instance.rb main # Allow to eager load additional tables in Search. Useful to avoid N+1 performance problems. # Example usage: # register_search_topic_eager_load do |opts| # %i(example_table) # end # OR # register_search_topic_eager_load(%i(example_table)) def register_search_topic_eager_load(tables = nil, &block) Search.custom_topic_eager_load(tables, enabled: method(:enabled?), &block) end # Request a new size for topic thumbnails # Will respect plugin enabled setting is enabled # Size should be an array with two elements [max_width, max_height] def register_topic_thumbnail_size(size) if !(size.kind_of?(Array) && size.length == 2) raise ArgumentError.new("Topic thumbnail dimension is not valid") end DiscoursePluginRegistry.register_topic_thumbnail_size(size, self) This file has been truncated. show original In order to get it to work, you’ll have to specify all the gem’s dependencies which are not already included in the Gemfile.

[image] kgish: namely docx in order to generate word docs. What’s your plugin going to do? I’ve got a client who would love to be able to export a topic as a Word document.

I’ve created a plugin that does just that, click on the word-icon, interested? [image]

I"m sure she will be. I just wrote a Ruby program that takes either a topic or category URL on the command line and downloads a topic (or all of them in the category) as a sort-of MBOX file with headers like these: From username 1365 2016-07-18T02:20:41.074Z Name: Jay User (username) Subject: Week 7 Discussion Date: 2016-07-28T02:20:41.074Z Post: 10 Reply-to: 9 Num-Replies: 0 Read-time: 30 Times-read: 21 Post-URL: https://literatecomputing.com/t/79/10 followed by either the HTML or the raw Markdown text.

I’m very interested in seeing your code!

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kgish (Kgish) September 14, 2016, 9:58pm 10

I guess that’s one way of doing it. My method however does something similar and delivers the generated doc directly to the user.

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