September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
123 pages
1h 52m
English
I hope that you’ve found this exploration of the Rails plugin mechanism both interesting and useful. Unfortunately, this brief short cut could never fully plumb the depths of what is possible using the plugin system (those possibilities are really only limited by your imagination, anyway). However, you should now be in a good position to start producing your own plugins for use in your own applications and those of other developers.
I would again strongly encourage you to become familiar with Ruby as a language in its own right, and in particular with the mechanisms Ruby employs to extend existing classes and objects using modules. There are already a wealth of examples available in the ...