Working With Rails

Loaded Plugins

= loaded_plugins

loaded_plugins adds Rails.plugins, a list all of the plugins that Rails has loaded.

Resources

Wiki

• http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Loaded_plugins

Announcement

• http://www.pluginaweek.org/2006/11/02/2-loaded_plugins-a-monkey-plugin/

Source

• http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/plugins/rails/loaded_plugins

Development

• http://dev.pluginaweek.org/browser/trunk/plugins/rails/loaded_plugins

Usage

During initialization, Rails.plugins will keep track of a list of all of the plugins that have been loaded so far. Once initialization is complete, Rails.plugins will contain all of the plugins loaded in the application.

The order of the plugins will be based on the order in which the plugins were loaded during initialization.

Caveats

If you need access to Rails.plugins during initialization of your application, you must use require_plugin from the plugin_dependencies plugin or ensure that loaded_plugins is loaded before your plugin. Otherwise, if you load it during initialization with the following:

require 'loaded_plugins'

This will not track all of the plugins that were loaded prior to it being required until AFTER initialization is complete.

Also, note that the plugins are listed in the order that they are completely loaded. That is, only after the entire initialization of a plugin is complete will it get added to Rails.plugins.

Credits

This plugin has been heavily influenced by the work James Adam has done in Engines 1.2 (http://www.rails-engines.org/).

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly