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SEE IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT USING RAPT AT THE BOTTOM!

So I’m really liking the Peepcode.com tutorials available for Rails development. I just purchased the “Test-First Development” tutorial from the site and was cranking through until I got to the 14 minute mark where you use RaPT (a replacement for the Rails plugin script) to install the calendar_helper plugin and received the error

:/journal_app imarichardson$ script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper
Error: RaPT currently does not work outside of a Rails application directory.  Please change to the top level of a Rails application and try again.

when trying to install the “calendar_helper” plugin via RaPT. Apparently this is an error popping up for several folks. Here’s what I did to get by:

• I downloaded the Firefox Rails Plugin Search Extension and searched for the “calendar_helper” plugin and got this page.
• Instead of using the RaPT installer, I just used the basic rails plugin script below, providing the location I saw on the page listed in the previous step:

:/journal_app imarichardson$ script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper
+ ./calendar_helper/MIT-LICENSE
+ ./calendar_helper/README
+ ./calendar_helper/Rakefile
+ ./calendar_helper/about.yml
+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/calendar_styles_generator.rb
+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/templates/blue/style.css
+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/templates/grey/style.css
+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/templates/red/style.css
+ ./calendar_helper/init.rb
+ ./calendar_helper/lib/calendar_helper.rb
+ ./calendar_helper/test/stylesheet_tester.html
+ ./calendar_helper/test/test_calendar_helper.rb

Beautiful … installation success!

UPDATE: Thanks from Manuel in the comments:

To be able to use rapt for these plugins you should first register the new sources as:

rapt source http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins

After this is done you should be able to install the plugin using:

rapt install calendar_helper

This apply to every new source repository for plugins.
I hope this will clarify why you were unable to install this.

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