How do you install Ruby on Rails plugins?

Question

I am trying to install the has_calendar plugin, and it says that is successfully installing. However, when I have a page with code the plugin should execute, I am returned errors of undefined functions.

Is there somewhere I need to reference the plugin as a helper?

Here the sample code, straight off the wiki page.

<%= calendar :year => 2010, :month => 9 %>

Answer 1

You need to be sure to restart your app after installing a plugin. You can do this by restarting the application server, or, if you're using passenger, touch tmp/restart.txt .

You shouldn't need to add any references, unless the plugin's readme specifically asks for them.

You can ensure that the plugin is installed by checking the vendor/plugins/ directory to for a directory with your plugin's name. If it's not there, you may not have the proper SCM installed, which would be required to download the repository.