I had a few random ideas that popped into my head, and one of them was a plugin to install plugins. That requires a forum rebuild. Is there a way to rebuild using Ruby? I really don’t want to try: p `cd ../../` p `. /launcher rebuild app`

In a standard install , Discourse (and therefore, plugins) are running inside a docker container. That container does not have complete access to the host filesystem, so it can’t access the host’s /var/discourse directory to modify app.yml or run launcher. And even if it could… there’s a bit of a ci…

[imagem] David Taylor: Perhaps someone else can share a link if they can find it? (or maybe it was all a dream :sweat_smile:) Yep, here it is: [imagem] ProCourse Installer Plugin This plugin is designed to make it extremely easy to install new plugi…

[imagem] David Taylor: That container does not have complete access to the host filesystem, so it can’t access the host’s /var/discourse directory to modify app.yml or run launcher. Hmm… I see. [imagem] David Taylor: Running ./launcher rebuild would kill the docker container… which would…

Dashboard.literatecomputing.com will install and remove plugins by editing the app.yml (or web_only.yml) and doing the rebuild (actually, bootstrap, destroy, rebuild). On a two container install, the downtime is minimal. It also does stuff like upgrade docker, and postgres, docker prune, and so on.…

This plugin seems to just clone the repository into the /plugins directory. Interesting.

ProCourse Installer was amazing! It’s too bad it created issues for some plugins.

[imagem] Nate Dhaliwal: Is there a way to rebuild using Ruby? You can do something like this inside the container to add a plugin to an existing container: cd /var/www/discourse/plugins git clone my-plugin-url rake db:migrate assets:precompile sv restart unicorn But the problems of keeping …

So that’s why the ProCouese plugin only cloned the repositories, and can only be removed via that plugin page to rm -rf the vloned plugin folder.

[imagem] Nate Dhaliwal: Yep, here it is: It actually worked quite decently as a proof of concept. It could use some tweaks though as it was said it could make troubleshooting more difficult. So maybe need some command line info how to access the procouree installer. Maybe better log file. …

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 13 Fevereiro , 2025 23:16 3

Sim, aqui está:

Tópico		Respostas	Vistas
Ability to install and uninstall plugins directly from Admin GUI Feature	15	1923	20 Setembro , 2020
How to install a plugin without rebuilding (or set a maintainance message) Support	10	3538	22 Julho , 2020
What happens next? Self-hosting	9	215	16 Julho , 2025
Unable to rebuild app after installing these plugins Self-hosting unsupported-install	6	951	17 Julho , 2024
General plugin questions Self-hosting	4	465	7 Maio , 2020

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