David J Rice

I posted this article some time ago but thought i’d give a little update as some things have changed since Ruby on Rails version 1.1

1. Okay first of all lets assume we’ve created a new project rails example

2. Now cd svnexample and we’ll import the app into our repository svn import . http://domain.com/svn/example/trunk

3. mv example example_old

4. svn co http://domain.com/svn/example example We now have a working copy of our application

5. The following step will be the same for all of your rails 1.1 > ? applications, so it’s a good idea to extract it into a handy little shellscript you can run time and time again

    svn remove log/*
    svn commit -m 'removing all log files from subversion'
    svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/
    svn update log/
    svn commit -m 'Ignoring all files in /log/ ending in .log'
    svn remove tmp/*
    svn commit -m 'removing all cache sockets and sessions from tmp directory' 
    svn propset svn:ignore "*" tmp/
    svn update tmp/
    svn commit -m "Ignoring all files created in tmp directory"
    
    # if you're doing a collaborative application you'll want to ignore 
    # database.yml too so do these steps
   
    svn move config/database.yml config/database.example
    svn commit -m 'Moving database.yml to database.example'
    svn propset svn:ignore "database.yml" config/
    svn update config/
    svn commit -m 'Ignoring database.yml'

   that will clear out all of the cruft we don’t want to have to transfer every time we do a commit, especially if your using lighttpd locally as subversion really hates the fcgi-socket-0 files.

And that’s about it, if you want to streamline things a bit more make an alias for your shellscript and run it every time you first checkout your new rails app. If you want more information there’s a lot of stuff over at the ruby on rails wiki