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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition
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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition

by Jose Valim
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 31m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Creating Your First Rails Plug-in

If you already have Rails installed, you’re ready to craft your first plug-in. Let’s call this plug-in pdf_renderer:

 
$ ​rails plugin new pdf_renderer

When we run this command we see the following output:

 
create
 
create README.rdoc
 
create Rakefile
 
create pdf_renderer.gemspec
 
create MIT-LICENSE
 
create .gitignore
 
create Gemfile
 
create lib/pdf_renderer.rb
 
create lib/tasks/pdf_renderer_tasks.rake
 
create lib/pdf_renderer/version.rb
 
create test/test_helper.rb
 
create test/pdf_renderer_test.rb
 
append Rakefile
 
vendor_app test/dummy
 
run bundle install

This command creates the basic plug-in structure, containing a pdf_renderer.gemspec file, a Rakefile, a Gemfile, and the lib and test folders. ...

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