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by David Anderson.
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I'm usually reluctant to go change "big things", almost always prefering to work around any issues I encounter. On the rare occaision though, I find I really must make changes or I'd forget what I did and struggle with it again later.
The script/plugin install command in Rails is a wonderful thing. It fetches code from repositories (like subversion or github) and installs it into your Rails