### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/1 "2016-09-12T11:11:58Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/2 "2016-09-12T12:29:14Z")
There is a way to do it. You put the following in your plugin.rb file
```plaintext
gem 'omniauth-linkedin-oauth2', '0.1.5'
```
Example of usage:
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### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/3 "2016-09-12T19:37:15Z")
Thanks, gave it a go but get the following error message:
```plaintext
/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)
```
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/4 "2016-09-12T19:45:30Z")
Did you run `bundle install` after adding the gem?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/5 "2016-09-12T20:17:28Z")
Yeah on your dev machine you will have to do bundle install. Docker does that for you, I believe.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/6 "2016-09-12T21:27:14Z")
Gems declared in a plugin are installed and loaded differently as per our implementation:
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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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/7 "2016-09-14T19:53:52Z")
> [@kgish](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/8 "2016-09-14T21:04:12Z")
I’ve created a plugin that does just that, click on the word-icon, interested?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/9 "2016-09-14T21:07:49Z")
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:
```bash
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.
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### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/10 "2016-09-14T21:58:20Z")
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-using-own-gem/50007/11 "2016-09-14T22:03:56Z")
I’m very interested in seeing your code!