Rails plugin generator

[Grayden_Shand]

In Part 4 of @eviltrout’s plugin guide, he recommends developing the plugin outside of the discourse code base and setting up a symbolic link in the plugins directory.

@eviltrout

The beauty of this setup is you can just check your plugin into github and not worry about the discourse codebase it lives inside. Your changes will be isolated to the plugin itself. If you need to edit discourse’s code you still can, but git will track the changes separately!

I recommend using one editor window for your plugin codebase and one for Discourse itself. It is easier when you think of them as two different things.

Would it make sense to add a -d ~/path/to/plugin_src option to generate the plugin in a different directory, and possibly also set up the symlink?