Comments on: Handy Subversion Rake task

By: askegg

askegg — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:27:23 +0000

Is there any way to map the rake tasks to the capistrano/scm libraries?

I have been thinking about creating a config file (maybe config/repository.rb?) then getting rake to read the config and use the capistrano libraries to checkin/checkout/update/etc from source control.

The config would look something like:
repository: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk
adapter: svn
username: askegg
password: mypassword

and enable:
rake checkout/checkin/update/diff/etc

Unfortunately, I do not have the skills with ruby/rails to pull this off (yet). Any takers, or is this a bad idea?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:06:15 +0000

Thanks for these, I didn’t realise they existed. It makes you wonder what other useful plugins are out there which have been left undiscovered.

By: Tom Brice

Tom Brice — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:01:52 +0000

There is this too:

http://re.visioni.st/articles/2006/06/25/rake-task-easily-configure-subversion

We (as in the Rails communtiy) really need a better way to track plugins.

By: Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:06:44 +0000

Jamie,

I’ve got a svn_tools plugin that does all that and more.

rake svn:add / svn:del / svn:commit are the basics, but it also will bootstrap your application into a repository and ignore all the proper file in one fell swoop.

http://jchris.mfdz.com/articles/2006/07/21/subversion-tools-plugin

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:19:42 +0000

Glad you liked it. It’s the simple things that make life easier.

By: Mark Lussier

Mark Lussier — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:44:51 +0000

I liked this so much I rolled it into a quick plugin so I can put it in each of my projects.. I stuck it here

./script/plugin install -x https://svn2.cvsdude.com/lussiema/plugins/subversionext