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:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-plugin-linkedin-auth/blob/master/plugin.rb
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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:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/plugin/instance.rb#L353-L381
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.
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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"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 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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I’m very interested in seeing your code!