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Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 47106

How to use the plugins within the vendor folder instead of the gems in rails?

I have a scenario where I need to modify certain functions within my plugin. So I thought I can change the files within the vendor/plugins/ folder. But then I realized that my installed gems code has been used by rails instead of vendor/plugins/. I thought of removing the gem from my gemlist but that throws an error. So how can I redirect my rails to use the plugins within vendor/plugins/ folder instead of my gems?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 295

Answers (2)

Jeff Ancel
Jeff Ancel

Reputation: 3091

Try monkey patching instead of modifying plugins/gems directly. I monkey patch them in the lib/ folder and config.auto_load it in my environment. It's not too bad, just make sure it's in the same modules, and has the same method name. For instance, to override a string method, you could do something like:

class String
  def method_to_override
    do_something
    super # if you want to still use the original method
  end
end

I recommend trying to stay away from directly modifying anything directly.

Also, if I'm using bundled gems, I usually bundle exec command, but I think that still loads the gems out of the path I chose. I have rarely used plugins as of late.

Upvotes: 0

sameera207
sameera207

Reputation: 16629

Try, per the bundler doc:

gem [gem name], :path => [path]

Ex: 

gem "rails", :path => "vendor/rails"

Upvotes: 3

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