Unable to run webpacker:install in a rails engine.

[etewiah]

When I install the webpacker gem in a rails engine the "webpacker:install" command is not available. There is however a "app:webpacker:install" command available.

When I run it:

bundle exec rails app:webpacker:install

I get the following error:

rails aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'app:template' (see --tasks)
./bin/rails:13:in `require'
./bin/rails:13:in `<main>'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

The only way to get the command to run is to cd into "spec/dummy" and run "webpacker:install". That installs webpacker into the "spec/dummy" directory though which is not ideal.

Just so I can learn more about webpacker I went ahead and installed it in the dummy app in my project here and it actually works but does not seem like the correct way to do things:

https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper

[gauravtiwari]

@etewiah Thanks for filling the issue. Webpacker doesn't support engines yet, please see this thread for more details: #348

[etewiah]

@gauravtiwari Thanks for the quick response. I did follow issue 348 and researched all mentions of webpacker and rails engines I could find.

While I could see that people were working on fixes for various tricky scenarios I did not see a clear statement that webpacker does not support engines at all. If that is the case then it would probably be good that this is mentioned explicitly in the main readme.

I'm actually getting some value out of having webpacker running in my dummy app so I'll carry on with that for now even though I know it is "wrong" :(

Hope we get some clarification soon about when support for engines might land.

[gauravtiwari]

Lets track this in #1694

[zedtux]

I'm facing this exact error, @etewiah how did you fixed it?