<div>BackgrounDRb is a plugin, which means it is specific to your app whereas a gem is a globally available piece of software. The best gem example i can give is mongrel, you install it once and use it with all your apps.
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<div>This means that you will have to install the plugin yourself, what is your dev environment? If you develop on your local machine, which you should be, then you can just issue "script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb" All on one line of course. You can follow the rest of the installation directions here:
<a href="http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/">http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/</a>. Once it is installed locally and working locally, you can just simply upload your project to your hosting provider.</div>
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<div>.: Michael :.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Walton</b> <<a href="mailto:bill.walton@charter.net">bill.walton@charter.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I sent the tech support folks at my host the following question:</font></div>
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<div><span>I need to get the BackgrounDRb plugin ( <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/backgroundrb/" target="_blank">http://rubyforge.org/projects/backgroundrb/</a>
) installed for my app. Is that something I get you to do? Or is it something I need to do myself?</span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">To which they replied:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><span>If this is a simple gem install we can do that. Please provide the exact name of the gem used in the 'gem install' command. Thanks.</span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">How should I respond? Is there a difference between a gem and a plugin? Is this something I can / should do myself on a shared hosting platform?</font></span></span></div>
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<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks,</font></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Bill</font></span></span></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><b>From:</b> <a title="bill.walton@charter.net" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:bill.walton@charter.net" target="_blank">Bill Walton</a>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="backgroundrb-devel@rubyforge.org" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:backgroundrb-devel@rubyforge.org" target="_blank">BackgroundRb</a>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:58 AM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [Backgroundrb-devel] deployment issues?</div><span class="q">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks to many of you, I've got my session management working with BackGrounDRb. Very cool. So now I need to deploy it. I'm on a shared hosting plan (at a2hosting in case that matters). Are there any issues I should expect to have to deal with in getting them to deploy the plugin? Anything special I need to do? I'm wondering in particular about the 'start up' steps.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Bill</font></div></span>
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