Great tutorial. First one which actually worked for me. Was Googling the whole web for a decent tutorial to learn to build a rails engine. Went through few other tutorials for this but got struck or got some unknown error when following them. This is the first one which went off quite well.

Thanks a lot.

Could you provide the second part of the tutorial. Really need them. Please… 🙂

Thanks Bill, updated.

That said, the record should indicate that Bloggity does not require the Engines plugin to run if you are using Rails 2.3 or above (where the Engines plugin is baked in). Please update accordingly.

Thanks,
Bill

In your init.rb file, where does ‘directory’ come from in model_path = File.join(directory, ‘app’, ‘models’)? Is that a helper method Rails provides? I assume ‘config’ is a helper method also?

Don’t you need to migrate your database with the migrations you created before you do the testing you describe?

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Bryan

Yes, must run migrations – thanks for pointing that out – updated the article 🙂