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Plugin install from Github should fail with a message if Git is not installed

#6530

Working on a new machine, I didn't have git installed when I was trying to install a rails plugin. Unfortunately, the plugin installation fails silently with no indication of what is happening:

$ r plugin install git://github.com/toland/app_version.git
$

It would be great if this failed with a meaningful message instead. Even just 'git is not installed' would do it.

Several other people have also had the same problem:

Reported by Matt Ryall · March 5th, 2011 @ 06:14 AM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: none

Activity

  1. Eian Counts
    Eian Counts

    For what it is worth, attached a patch that checks (also looks for svn).

    Also created a pull request at https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/208.

    March 8th, 2011 @ 04:45 AM