How to create a plugin/gem in rails

Question

Hello

Whats the best guide to start working like creating a plugin/gem. I got this tutorial from railscast but this is very basic.I got some other tutorials but all of them are too basic. Any other tutorial, you can suggest.

and what the things we should kept in mind while creating a gem or plugin?

Answer 1

This is a good article from Ilya Grigorik on creating a Rails 3 plugin.

Answer 2

Hi

Check following links

http://www.railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=682

http://zilkey.com/2008/5/30/tutorial-creating-plugins-in-rails

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/the-complete-guide-to-rails-plugins-part-i

http://juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/06/18/rails-plugin-tutorial/

http://izumi.plan99.net/manuals/creating_plugins.html

hope this helps

cheers

sameera

Answer 3

I warmly recommend Rails Guides at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ - they provide lots of interesting tutorials.

They also have an article about creating plugins.

Answer 4

I just finished creating my first rails engine which I packaged as a gem. I extracted a lot of useful foundational stuff and wrote up a tutorial on getting started with it:

http://keithschacht.com/creating-a-rails-3-engine-plugin-gem/