Rails Plugins: Extending Rails Beyond the Core

Chapter 7. Sharing Classes and Code

While plugins are often used to abstract and extract some functionality from an application that can then be put to use in the future, often we want to reuse complete classes between applications. There are certainly occasions when I find myself writing the same basic controller or model again, and again, and again...

Using Plugins to Share Code	84
Models and Helpers	84
Controllers	84
Organizing Your Shared Classes	85
Sharing Files That Aren’t Code	86
Using Engine Plugins	89
Generators in Plugins	93
Creating Generators	95
Running Plugin Generators	96
Sharing Generators	97
Upgrading Generated Code	97
Summary	98

Using Plugins to Share Code

The ability to share code among many applications is a powerful tool when you are ...