Plugins ...

[nafets-lesierk]

Hi there.

• You provide a short how-to on installing plugins for Discourse.
  cd /app/code/plugins
git clone <plugin-repo>
restart
• You also highlight, that installing plugins might break an otherwise healthy installation -> thank God for your excellent back-up features; though you do signal that "official" plugins as you list here should be OK.

There's 1.) a short query on instructions and 2.) a bit of frustration that a random selection of (official) plugin installs (docs, solved, graphviz) lead to Oops. The software powering this discussion forum encountered an unexpected problem.

1. In some previous posts on plugins for Discourse, there were a couple of more lines to the instructions mainly:
   cd /app/code
bundle exec rake plugin:install_gems['REPLACE_WITH_PLUGINS_NAME']
   Have they gone away on purpose?
2. Having attempted to install the docs plugin - it does not crash the system immediately; I do see the options in the admin->plugin section. If I go check to activate the plugin, it goes off to "Oops". For the solved and graphiz plugins: the "Oops" singularity comes about right after the mandatory restart; no accessing the admin->plugin, no accessing the system.

So clearly something is not working here and it might well be my particular installation, albeit it happend dito previously in a prior version; just haven't attempted since systematically. Am up to date on the Discourse version.

Regards and thanks

[girish]

@nafets-lesierk said in Plugins ...:

cd /app/code
bundle exec rake plugin:install_gems['REPLACE_WITH_PLUGINS_NAME']
Have they gone away on purpose?

Yes, this is part of discourse restart sequence and thus not needed.

Having attempted to install the docs plugin

Let me test and get back.

[nafets-lesierk]

@girish said in Plugins ...:

Let me test and get back.

Thanks!

[girish]

I can reproduce this:

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 326ms (ActiveRecord: 0.0ms | Allocations: 29968)
ActionView::Template::Error (The asset "plugins/discourse-docs.js" is not present in the asset pipeline.
)
app/helpers/application_helper.rb:93:in `script_asset_path'
app/helpers/application_helper.rb:144:in `block in preload_script'
app/helpers/application_helper.rb:143:in `map'
app/helpers/application_helper.rb:143:in `preload_script'
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:42
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:41:in `each'
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:41
lib/topic_list_responder.rb:15:in `block (2 levels) in respond_with_list'
lib/topic_list_responder.rb:8:in `respond_with_list'
app/controllers/list_controller.rb:110:in `block (2 levels) in <class:ListController>'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:421:in `block in with_resolved_locale'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:421:in `with_resolved_locale'
lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass_middleware.rb:74:in `call'
lib/content_security_policy/middleware.rb:12:in `call'
lib/middleware/anonymous_cache.rb:389:in `call'
lib/middleware/gtm_script_nonce_injector.rb:10:in `call'
config/initializers/100-quiet_logger.rb:20:in `call'
config/initializers/100-silence_logger.rb:29:in `call'
lib/middleware/enforce_hostname.rb:24:in `call'
lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb:228:in `call'

[jdaviescoates]

@girish it'd be really great if you're able to get the Cloudron Discourse package to work better so that all official plugins work!

But maybe that's just not possible because of how Cloudron works?

At present it feels like Discourse just doesn't really work properly on Cloudron (which has sadly pretty much always been the case afaict )

[nafets-lesierk]

Ah, OK. So it was not my incompetence ...
And obviously, yeah: it would be cool to get plugins to work.
@jdaviescoates : You point out that

so that all official plugins work!

Am I missing something? My success rate was 0/3 plugins; are there some that do work? Maybe that might be a way of figuring out why others don't ...
Cheers

[jdaviescoates]

@nafets-lesierk tbh I've not tried recently, but yes in the past I have successfully installed some!

[nafets-lesierk]

@girish : Just for my peace of mind - and not wanting to wait for things that might not happen -> will Cloudron be looking into the plugin question?
Thanks and regards

[girish]

@nafets-lesierk yes, we will fix it. The package is not very useful without plugins working.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Plugins ...:

@nafets-lesierk yes, we will fix it.

[nafets-lesierk]

@girish : Good morning (CET) - has there been progress made on this topic?
Regards

[girish]

@nafets-lesierk I am on it now.

[nafets-lesierk]

Thanks and Season's Greetings
Regards

[girish]

Plugins should work now. But I have not tested if this specific plugin works.

[nafets-lesierk]

Thanks! Will test the official ones I mentioned (i.e. docs, solved, graphviz) ASP.
Cheers

[girish]

@nafets-lesierk see this comment from @IniBudi