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…

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: # …

[immagine] 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? [immagine]

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 …

I’m very interested in seeing your code!

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kgish (Kgish) 14 Settembre 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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