How to solve rake tasks deprecation on the rails plugin?
- by Dida
Because of the concept introduced in here,
Rails::Plugin is nothing more than a
Rails::Engine, but since it's loaded
too late in the boot process, it does
not have the same configuration powers
as a bare Rails::Engine.
Opposite to Rails::Railtie and
Rails::Engine, you are not supposed to
inherit from Rails::Plugin.
Rails::Plugin is automatically
configured to be an engine by simply
placing inside vendor/plugins. Since
this is done automatically, you
actually cannot declare a
Rails::Engine inside your Plugin,
otherwise it would cause the same
files to be loaded twice. This means
that if you want to ship an Engine as
gem it cannot be used as plugin and
vice-versa.
Besides this conceptual difference,
the only difference between
Rails::Engine and Rails::Plugin is
that plugins automatically load the
file "init.rb" at the plugin root
during the boot process.
rake tasks in the rails plugins are deprecated and it is advised to use lib/tasks instead. How to solve this? Can I just simply move the plugin's tasks to the lib/tasks?
