19.2. Writing Your Own Plugins

At some point in your Rails career, you might find that you want to share common code among similar projects that you’re involved with. Or if you’ve come up with something particularly innovative, you might wonder if it would make sense to share it with the rest of the world.

Rails makes it easy to become a plugin author. It even includes a plugin generator script that sets up the basic directory structure and files that you need to get started: