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Subversion & Rails - Implement Your Own Version Control System



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The following steps all happen on the server.

If you want to automate all this to save time - scroll down and check out the script at the bottom that you can use.

1) Make your svn repository
        mkdir -p ~/svn/<projectname>
        svnadmin create ~/svn/<projectname>
2) Set up a directory to import
        mkdir -p ~/tmp/<projectname>
        cd ~/tmp/<projectname>
        mkdir branches
        mkdir tags
        mkdir trunk
3) Make an empty shell of a rails app as a place holder in trunk
        cd trunk
        rails .
4) Do the initial import of your temp project into svn
svn import ~/tmp/<projectname> file:///home/<username>/svn/<projectname> -m "created project"
5) Clean up afterwards
        rm -rf ~/tmp/<projectname>


At this stage if all has gone to plan you should have an svn repository at ~/svn/projectname that contains the shell of a rails app




7) Check out a working copy on the server itself 
mkdir ~/tmp/workingcopy
cd ~/tmp/workingcopy 
svn co file:///home/<username>/svn/<projectname>/trunk <projectname>
8) Tidy up some rails specific things
        cd <projectname> 
        svn remove log/*
        svn commit -m 'no logs directory in version control please'
        svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/
        svn update log/  
        svn commit -m 'no log files either'
    
X) Add anything you want to your svn repository. For example, if you added a css and some images to your '<projectname>/public' directory then from within your working copy (which you made when you did the svn co):
                svn add sexy.css 
                svn add img/
                svn commit

Y) If you are a Subclipse fan, the URL to use is:
svn+ssh://<username>@<yourdomain.com>/home/<username>/svn/<projectname>

Also, if you are having trouble getting TortoiseSVN to work with Windows, check out this thread

If you don't feel like typing out each individual step above, you can create a script file that does the same thing. Save the code below into a file in your home directory called "setupsvn.sh" (or whatever name you prefer), then chmod 755 it and execute it by typing "./setupsvn.sh <projectname>". This code simply automates the steps outlined above (as of 2007-04-13).

#!/bin/bash
# derived from http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki_thread/4
echo
echo "Setup a new SVN repository under ~/svn/<projectname>"
echo "Usage: $0 <projectname>"
echo

if [ $# == 0 ]
then
exit
fi

PROJECT=$1

echo "Creating SVN repository"
mkdir -p ~/svn/$PROJECT
svnadmin create ~/svn/$PROJECT
mkdir ~/tmp/$PROJECT
cd ~/tmp/$PROJECT
mkdir branches
mkdir tags
mkdir trunk
cd trunk

rails .

echo "Creating initial import of temp project into SVN"
svn import ~/tmp/$PROJECT file:///home/$USER/svn/$PROJECT -m "created project"

cd ~
rm -rf ~/tmp/$PROJECT

echo "Checking out a working copy on the server"
mkdir ~/tmp/workingcopy
cd ~/tmp/workingcopy
svn co file:///home/$USER/svn/$PROJECT/trunk $PROJECT

echo "Cleaning up some rails-specific things..."
cd $PROJECT
svn remove log/*
svn commit -m 'no logs directory in version control please'
svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/
svn update log/
svn commit -m 'no log files either'

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