When I installed click to globalize, I had the following message when I tried to use my project ('rake click:test', 'script/server', etc.) : C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/rails/plugin/loader.rb:149:in ensure_all_registered_plugins_are_loaded!': Could not locate the following plugins: helper_test and globalize (LoadError)

    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/rails/plugin/loader.rb:39:in `load_plugins'
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb:189:in `load_plugins'
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb:105:in `process'
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb:49:in `send'
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb:49:in `run'
    from S:/Soovenir/web_site/vendor/plugins/click_to_globalize/init.rb:8:in `evaluate_init_rb'
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/rails/plugin.rb:79:in `evaluate_init_rb'
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/kern

el/reporting.rb:11:in silence_warnings'

     ... 21 levels...
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_requi

re'

    from C:/Applications/Dev/ruby-186-25/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
    from script/server:3

Tracing the code, I found an inconsistency in click_to_globalize/init.rb. Since it wants to make sure that Click is loaded after Globalize, it basicaly says "load everything but me". Since Globalize is part of "everything but me", it's fine.

The problem occurs in the way "everything but me" is computed: plugins = (Dir["#{config.plugin_paths}/*"] - [ File.dirname(FILE) ]).map { |plugin| plugin.split(File::SEPARATOR).last}

This piece of code assumes that any directory under vendor/plugins is a plugin. But if you look at Rails::Plugin.valid?, it is slightly more complicated: a valid plugin has a lib directory or an init.rb file. And it appears that one of my installed plugins, helper_test, is not "valid" if we follow the Plugin definition, thus causing an error when Click "forces" it.

To make the Click trick more robust, I copied/pasted Rails::Loader.locate_plugins method (which is unfortunately protected) :

Get the plugin list the Rails::Plugin's way

plugins = config.plugin_locators.map { |locator|

        locator.new(initializer).plugins.map {|plugin| plugin.name}
      }.flatten

Remove Click from the list

plugins = plugins - [File.dirname(FILE).split(File::SEPARATOR).last]

(sorry, no patch to submit... but if you want to use this solution as is, you can probably do it without too much efforts :) )

Cheers,

Philippe