I tried rake gem:unpack but I get task not found. I would like to have refinery gems in my /vendor directory to be able to see the never ending views and partials and may be modify them.
I'm still learning how to do things the "Rails way", but I feel your need to have the files in a directory that's easy to see. One command I found that will dump in vendor in the local project is bundle install --deployment. You'll need to run this after initially doing a bundle install.
run bundle package
more here: http://gembundler.com/bundle_package.html
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Many jQuery plugins have the following directory structures:
/<plugin name>
../css
../images
../js
The CSS files usually have relative links to the images in them. What I want to do is include these plugins in the Rails Way under the Asset Pipeline, and hopefully that doesn't involve having to renamed the file references to remove the relative links. Is there such a Rails Way?
Could it also be that it's overkill to include an already-minified jQuery plugin in the Asset Pipeline?
You should try to add your assets to the load path which is the recommended way, as far as I know. If the application you're running has the assets-pipeline activated, it should find your assets after expanding the path in your application.rb
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("plugins/plugin_name/assets/")
Not shure, if this is what you asked for but if not, you should check: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#asset-organization
Remeber to restart your server
I had the same issue and also tried to find "the Rails way" to do this. And this is what I ended up with at the end of the day:
As Rob already mentioned:
vendor/assets is for assets that are owned by outside entities, such as code for JavaScript plugins and CSS frameworks.
Source: 2.1 Asset Organization
Lets take a practical example: using the jquery_datepicker gem (Note: we had to use a workaround because of this issue: bundle pack does not work with git sources).
1) Installing the gem (pretty straighforward):
cd vendor/gems
git clone https://github.com/albertopq/jquery_datepicker.git
2) Add this to your Gemfile
gem 'jquery_datepicker', :path => 'vendor/gems/jquery_datepicker'
3) Install a jquery-ui theme
From ThemeRoller select a theme, check Datepicker and Slider
and the jQUery version
Download and extract the content of the package
CSS/images from the css/theme-name folder move them:
jquery-ui-1.8.xx.custom.css to app/vendor/stylesheets/
the images folder to app/vendor/images/ (yes, move the entire folder images so you end up with something like this app/vendor/images/images/ui-icons_256x240.png
i18n from the development-bundle/ui/i18n folder (optional) move them to:
Create a folder i18n under app/vendor/javascripts/
move jquery.ui.datepicker-xx.js to this folder app/vendor/javascripts/i18n/
make sure the i18n folder is loaded so include in application.js
//= require_directory ./i18n
vendor/assets is loaded automatically AFAIK so you don't have to include the path in the asset pipeline.
I'd like to see how others are approaching this, it's a very good question.
I think the reason you haven't received an answer is because it's kind of unclear what you're asking. Are you asking if it's overkill to put your plugins in the asset pipeline? Are you asking if you have to rename file references?
I always put all my jquery plugins in my asset pipeline. Overkill or not, there all in one place and they only get compiled once so even if compiling them takes longer, it doesn't affect my app.
While creating a Rails application:
user$ rails new App
All the other files get created, i.e. app, config, db, doc, script, test, Gemfile, etc I find that the Gemfile.lock fails to be created. Any particular reason why this could be happening? I am facing errors in bundling gems, though I do not know whether the absence of the Gemfile.lock file is causing this. Please help!
you dont get a lock until after you do your bundle, and whenever there is a well form group of gems built (with all dependancies available..)
if you run:
bundle install
I think one should get created for you.
or
bundle update
if you have a lock file and have an updated gemset
Is there a way to mount Yard (http://yardoc.org/guides/index.html) server on heroku ?
I did not find anything in the doc that explains how to do it.
Thanks a lot
This may have pitfalls I haven't uncovered yet (e.g. Yard caches its output files somewhere, given Heroku may often wipe the filesystem and re-slug it, you will lose the cache files and have to be regenerated), but it generally works and is very simple.
Create a new folder on your hard drive somewhere (I used ~/Sites/yard-on-heroku)
Create a new Gemfile in there, listing the gems you want to be available (if they aren't in the standard Heroku install). I used the following:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'sinatra'
gem 'rails'
gem 'yard'
Run bundle install to install the gems.
Create a file called Procfile and put the following in it:
web: yard server -p $PORT -g
Create a new git repository with git init
Commit your files to it (Gemfile*, Procfile)
Create a Heroku app with heroku create
Push your repo to Heroku with git push heroku master
And that's it. If you go to the Heroku URL given when you created the site in step 7, you'll see Yard running with all the gems available too it. If you want to specifically only show the gems listed in the Gemfile rather than all the Gems available by default including the ones in your Gemfile, then you can use -G instead of -g in the Procfile.
(my first ever answer on StackOverflow, so hope it's OK - any advice on improvements, gratefully received).
I wrote a nice tutorial with my solution to this problem here: http://benradler.com/blog/2014/05/27/deploy-yard-documentation-server-to-heroku/
I have created a rake task and I need to require a gem and two source files. I've used the bundle install to install the gem so that's not a problem, but what folder should I save my two source file to? My rake task in in /lib/tasks/my_rake_task.rb.
Under rails convention, should the source files be saved there as well or is there a preferred location. Thanks.
Looks like any file loaded in the lib folders is loaded.
I have a rails 3.0.5 app and I'm setting up capistrano to use a recipe.
in my config directory I have a file named "database_capistrano.rb" and in my deploy.rb, also in config directory, I have the following line, just in the beginning:
require 'database_capistrano'
But I'm getting:
`require': no such file to load -- capistrano_database (LoadError)
Also try with:
require 'database_capistrano.rb'
And don't work...
How, in Rails 3.0.5, include files in capistrano deploy.rb??
Ok, I manage to find out how this should be done.
Just copied the file to a new sub-directory "deploy", for organization only, and at the beginning of my deploy.rb, added:
$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'deploy')
Then, in deploy.rb, just used:
require 'database_capistrano'
For future visitors, I got better results with the answer found in Capistrano: deploy.rb file refactoring
i.e instead of require, use load. As long as that file is a gem in the bundle or a file that requires other gems that are in bundle, this will work.
To be frank, I didn't try the accepted answer, half because it looked a little workaround-ish, and half because I didnt fully understand how to adapt it for my situation