[uf-rest] RESTful Rails plugin on RubyForge

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:41 PM, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
>> Using the rails plugin system for now should work though.  Is
>> there a particular reason you'd prefer a gem over a plugin?
>
> I'll review the rest of this work shortly, but the choice to go  
> plugin is definitely the right one. Gems are not recommended for  
> extensions like these to Rails. It's more for generic stuff like  
> database connectors that has use outside of Rails. Plugins are for  
> stuff that's made solely for Rails.

Ah, okay.   The reason I like gems is that there's an easy way to get  
a list of available gems.  Is there an easy way to list "available"  
plug-ins?

I'll try to get my own example posted when I have a chance, hopefully  
in time for my in-house demo tomorrow. :-)

-- Ernie P.