How do I commit the restful_authentication plugin to my git repo?

Question

How do I add a the http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/tree/master plugin to my Rails project and the commit it to the git repo ? I need it to be committed with the project.

I have tried a few times but it's ignored by git.

Thanks.

Answer 1

From the README:

• either use git clone git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git restful_authentication
• or rename the plugin’s directory to be restful_authentication after fetching it.

Did you do that?

After doing a git clone, you'll want to rm -rf restful_authentication/.git to make your project happy to add it (or use submodules).

Answer 2

Either way git status doesn't report anything that needs to be added, it's like it doesn't see it.

Answer 3

@Dustin has likely nailed your problem.

Also note that if you don't already have a "lib" directory in your project, I found the generator will fail:

ruby script/generate authenticated user sessions

So mkdir lib first.

I posted a narration of restful_authentication + openid that covers these details and may be a little help.

Answer 4

thanks, I am not sure what happened but it seems to be ok now :)