# App Plugins

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/app-plugins/15897>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [20 January 2005 02:58 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/app-plugins/15897 "2005-01-20T02:58:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Livingstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@Douglas\_Livingstone](https://rubytalk.org/u/Douglas_Livingstone)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2005 02:58 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/app-plugins/15897/1 "2005-01-20T02:58:13Z")

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Does anyone have an example of a Ruby application which can accept  
plugin modules? (Via uploading a zip or text file to the site.)

Cheers,  
Douglas

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**Author:** ![Austin\_Ziegler5](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/rubytalk.org/austin_ziegler5/32/1985_2.png) [@Austin\_Ziegler5](https://rubytalk.org/u/Austin_Ziegler5)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2005 05:23 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/app-plugins/15897/2 "2005-01-20T05:23:36Z")

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tDiary and FreeRide.

The conversion routines in Ruwiki are also based on plugins; as are  
the language files for Text::Hyphen.

-austin

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> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:58:13 +0900, Douglas Livingstone \<rampant@gmail.com\> wrote:
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> > Does anyone have an example of a Ruby application which can accept  
> > plugin modules? (Via uploading a zip or text file to the site.)
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> --  
> Austin Ziegler \* halostatue@gmail.com  
> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\* Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca

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**Author:** ![Curt\_Hibbs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@Curt\_Hibbs3](https://rubytalk.org/u/Curt_Hibbs3)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2005 11:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/app-plugins/15897/3 "2005-01-20T11:24:55Z")

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Douglas Livingstone wrote:

> Does anyone have an example of a Ruby application which can accept  
> plugin modules? (Via uploading a zip or text file to the site.)

FreeRIDE is 100% plugin based. It has a reusable plugin framework called  
FreeBase that we intend (someday) to package up as an independent RubyForge  
project. Rich Kilmer has used it in some projects for his clients and, of  
course, FreeRIDE is built on top of it.

For more info, see:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/64694](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/64694)

and

&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?FreeBASE](http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?FreeBASE)

Curt

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**Author:** ![Laurent\_Sansonetti1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@Laurent\_Sansonetti1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Laurent_Sansonetti1)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2005 11:41 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/app-plugins/15897/4 "2005-01-20T11:41:33Z")

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Hi,

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> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:58:13 +0900, Douglas Livingstone \<rampant@gmail.com\> wrote:
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> > Does anyone have an example of a Ruby application which can accept  
> > plugin modules? (Via uploading a zip or text file to the site.)
> > 
> > Cheers,  
> > Douglas
> 
> In Alexandria ([http://alexandria.rubyforge.org](http://alexandria.rubyforge.org)), providers are kind of  
> pluggins (though it is not possible to install them at runtime yet).
> 
> Laurent