Questions on writing plugin for merb

[Tim Perrett]

Hey all,

I am looking to write a plugin for merb and have a few queries about  
how to best go about it. I have a few questions (sorry if some are  
very merb newbie ones):

- It seems all the plugins are gems; I can just add dependencies (my  
plugin will require soap4r) as per any usual gem spec?
- If I want my plugin to add some new generate functionality? Is this  
possible? If so, are there any examples? I dont seem to be able to  
find any :(
- The plugin needs to go into the gem dir right? So anything within  
the gem dir is automatically included on the app load path?
- If there were some view helpers in the gem, is there way of forcing  
them to be included like in rails where you include them into the  
ActionView module so they are instantly available in views?

It also seems that in version 0.4.2, doing "merb -P my_plugin" doesnt  
work outside a merb app? Is this a bug?

Thanks for any pointers!!

Cheers

Tim