Rails: provider / gems or supplier / plugins?

Question

I have to track dependencies with git -submodules in my rails application. So far I have added submodules for things like haml, shoulda and authlogic for "providers / plugins". I saw signs that I should use "vendor / gems" instead.

Question: which directory is the appropriate place to host dependencies tracked as submodules? Is the choice arbitrary?

thank

Answer 1

- /, , / . , gem . Rails . , : use config.gem gem git - , /.

Answer 2

, config.gems , , .

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• /, ,

  environment.rb

  config.gem "plugin_name", :version => ">=1.0.0"
  

  rake gems:unpack:dependencies
  

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  script/plugin install github_url
  

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