diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
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+= redmine_default_group
+
+Description goes here
diff --git a/app/views/settings/_default_group.erb b/app/views/settings/_default_group.erb
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+++ b/app/views/settings/_default_group.erb
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+<p>
+  <%=content_tag(:label, l(:label_group) + ":") %>
+  <%=text_field_tag "settings[group]", @settings["group"], :size=>25 %><br/>
+</p>
diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
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+# English strings go here for Rails i18n
+en:
+  # my_label: "My label"
+  label_group: "Default group name"
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
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+++ b/config/routes.rb
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+# Plugin's routes
+# See: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
diff --git a/init.rb b/init.rb
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+require 'redmine'
+require 'redmine_default_group/patch'
+
+
+Redmine::Plugin.register :redmine_default_group do
+  name 'Redmine Default Group plugin'
+  author 'Arthur Zalevsky'
+  description 'This plugin allows to set default group for new users.'
+  version '0.0.1'
+  url 'https://github.com/yourcelf/redmine_etherpad'
+  author_url 'https://github.com/yourcelf'
+  settings :partial => 'settings/default_group',
+           :default => {
+             'group' => false,
+           }
+   
+  Rails.configuration.to_prepare do 
+      # This tells the Redmine version's controller to include the module from the file above.
+      AccountController.send(:include, RedmineDefaultGroup::AccountControllerPatch)
+  end
+
+#  settings = Setting.plugin_redmine_etherpad
+#  unless settings['host'] and settings['key'] 
+#    raise "Please define etherpad parameters in configuration.yml."
+#  end
+
+  # Set current user name.
+  if User.current
+  settings['userName'] = User.current.name
+  #elsif conf.fetch('loginRequired', true)
+  #  return "TODO: embed read-only."
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/lib/redmine_default_group/patch.rb b/lib/redmine_default_group/patch.rb
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+++ b/lib/redmine_default_group/patch.rb
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+module RedmineDefaultGroup
+  module AccountControllerPatch
+    def self.included(base)
+      base.class_eval do
+        # Insert overrides here, for example:
+         def register_automatically_with_default_group(user, &block)
+           register_automatically_without_default_group(user, &block)
+           @group = Group.find(:first, :conditions => ["LOWER(lastname) = ?", Setting.plugin_redmine_default_group['group'].downcase])
+           @group.users << user
+         end
+
+        alias_method_chain :register_automatically, :default_group # This tells Redmine to allow me to extend show by letting me call it via "show_without_plugin" above.
+        # I can outright override it by just calling it "def show", at which case the original controller's method will be overridden instead of extended.
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
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+# Load the Redmine helper
+require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../../test/test_helper')