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= Plugins for the Amahi Platform =
Plugins for the Amahi platform have been a neat but powerful feature that were a long time coming.
At the user level, plugins are installed like other apps from the Amahi app store. They are not a general purpose app, but rather a module that is added to the Amahi dashboard and setup areas for adding features. We have a few examples of plugins:
* [https://www.amahi.org/apps/db-backups-plugin Backing up internal databases inside the HDA]
* [https://www.amahi.org/apps/pooling Greyhole UI] (under development)
* [https://www.amahi.org/apps/web-apps Webapps], which adds the ability to manually add webapps -- useful for developers
* [https://www.amahi.org/apps/disk-stats Disk stats] plugin to monitor more detailed disk information
* [https://www.amahi.org/apps/disk-wizard New-disk wizard], under development, to easily add new drives onto an Amahi system
= Technical Description =
Plugins are really Ruby on Rails engines that are automatically mounted onto the Amahi platform via the installation of the corresponding app under which a plugin has been set up.
== Migrations ==
Plugins can automatically do "migrations", which are changes to the database structure of the platform. This is a little dangerous and should be done with care, but it's a really powerful feature.
= Assets =
