rector/rector-installer

This package is abandoned and no longer maintained. The author suggests using the rector/extension-installer package instead.

Composer plugin for automatic installation of Rector extensions

1.0.0 2026-05-27 05:12 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3
• composer-plugin-api: ^2.0

Requires (Dev)

• composer/composer: ^2.7
• composer/xdebug-handler: ^3.0
• phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.4
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• rector/rector-src: ^2.4
• symplify/easy-coding-standard: ^13.1

MIT

README

Composer plugin for automatic installation of Rector extensions.

Important Note

This functionality is now part of rector/rector core, so you don't need to install this plugin separately if rector/rector is already installed. See comments here.

Usage

composer require --dev rector/extension-installer

Instructions for extension developers

Set the extension's Composer package type to rector-extension so this plugin can recognize it and so it becomes discoverable on Packagist.

Add a rector key to the extension's composer.json extra section:

{
    "extra": {
        "rector": {
            "includes": [
                "config/config.php"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Limitations

The extension installer depends on Composer script events, so you cannot use the --no-scripts flag.

Acknowledgment

This package is heavily inspired by phpstan/extension-installer by Ondřej Mirtes. Thank you.