Rails plugins vs discourse plugins - what is the difference?

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

Creating Routes in Discourse and Showing Data

Here is a similar guide by @kleinfreund which shows in great depth, how build discourse plugins. Great resource.

How can I make my own Discourse plugins?

I’ve only just started but here’s my ‘starter for 10’ to get you going: Read: these this Try and read the code on the simplest, but popular plugins 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 (thanks man!)) Lots of …

These ones here. I highly recommend these ones hands on before making any comment about anything related to dev. Not to say you might not need custom tables ever but these are must anyway.