Error When creating custom plugin

[afall (Aziz Fall)]

Dear Discourse Community,
So I am following the instructions on Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins - Part 1 to create a discourse plugin, but everytime I add a new sub-directory in the plugins folder, and add a plugins.rb file in the sub-directory when I load up my discourse instance again I get the following error :Error while trying to load. I am running the instance as admin.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

To double check, are you adding a plugins.rb or plugin.rb file? It should be plugin.rb without the s.

[afall (Aziz Fall)]

yeah I have a plugin.rb not plugins.rb

[david (David Taylor)]

Can you paste the contents of your plugin.rb file here?

[afall (Aziz Fall)]

there is nothing in it, I am just following the tutorial

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

According to the tutorial (emphasis mine):

@eviltrout

In our case, we won’t be adding any ruby code but we still need the plugin.rb. Let’s create the directory basic-plugin with the file plugin.rb inside it, with the following contents:

basic-plugin/plugin.rb

# name: basic-plugin
# about: A super simple plugin to demonstrate how plugins work
# version: 0.0.1
# authors: Awesome Plugin Developer

Once you’ve created this file, you should restart your rails server and the plugin should be loaded.

[afall (Aziz Fall)]

I named the directory something other than basic-plugin, does it have to have that name if the plugin.rb file is empty?

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

The plugin.rb file cannot be empty. Please read the guide completely and carefully!

[afall (Aziz Fall)]

yeah I see, I just added comments in it and now it shows up in the plugins url, thanks by the way