How to install a Ruby on Rails plugin from a specific git repository branch

Posted on 12 March 2010

Lots of Ruby on Rails plugins are being updated for Rails 3 and thus for older Rails apps you don't always want to install the latest and greatest version.

Recently I needed to install the Rails 2.3 stable version of the exception notification plugin and so I needed to specify a particular branch in the git repository.

script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/exception_notification.git -r 2-3-stable

The -r option allows you to identifiy the specific branch you're after.

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Comments...

  • Cool. Thanks for the tip!

    Jim Gay at 24 Jun 10 at 10:19

  • you save me the day! thank U

    michele at 31 Jul 10 at 02:27

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