GawingAttachable

Do you want to be able to attach files to something? I needed to do that today and I made a plugin called Gawing Attachable (translated: make_attachable). It allows you to add attachments to something you make attachable.

Yes, there are many things you can still do to this, but like they say: make something quick and fix it up later on.

Check out the README before installing.

script/plugin install http://lucidph.dreamhosters.com/gawing_attachable/trunk

Creating your own plugin

I finally forced myself to make my own plugin instead of having controllers and models all over the place. Of course, I waited for the right time to make a plugin that wasn't too different, and needed to be different at the same time.

I chose to make another version of acts_as_voteable by Juixe. Here are the steps I took

1. I watched Ryan Bates' screencast on making plugins
2. I coped acts_as_voteable and starting editing things one by one to see what broke.
3. When I needed a clearer and more advanced explanation (like adding helpers and such), I referred to Geoffrey G's howto on creating plugins.

It took me about 4 hours to figure the whole thing out (I'm a slow learner.. and I already knew about polymorphic associations!).

The change I had to make to acts_as_voteable was that I had to have 3 kinds of votes: positive, neutral and negative. Very small change, right? :)

You can get my plugin like this:

script/plugin install http://lucidph.dreamhosters.com/gawing_voteable/trunk