# Rails plugin generator **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rails-plugin-generator/95907 **Category:** Announcements **Created:** [August 29, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rails-plugin-generator/95907 "2018-08-29T11:43:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rails-plugin-generator/95907/9 "2018-08-29T20:21:29Z")
@tophee it’s not the easiest skill to pick up but I’ve started to hit my stride after a few false starts. Take a look at: > [@How can I make my own Discourse plugins?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-make-my-own-discourse-plugins/90032/2): > > I’ve only just started but here’s my ‘starter for 10’ to get you going: Read: [these](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-creating-discourse-plugins-part-1/30515)[this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-start-building-stuff-for-discourse-if-youre-newbie-like-myself/45954) Try and read the code on the simplest, [but popular plugins](https://meta.discourse.org/c/plugin/l/top/yearly) and see if you can understand what they are doing (this is not always easy, especially with the complexity of dealing with multiple files and the sometimes brutal functional brevity of javasctipt, but persevere) You need to learn: Lots of Javascript (look no further than @mpj’s [Fun Fun Function excellent & fun (!) videos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q) (thanks man!)) Lots of … The most important tip is this: have something you passionately want to build in/add … then you will climb the required mountains 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rails-plugin-generator/95907)._