Accessing CVS from within a ruby application

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Hi,

I need to access a CVS repository (read only) from within a ruby
application. I have found the libraries CVStools and Ruby/CVS. Are
there any others? If not has anyone used these and would you recommend?
I am running ruby on WinXP and will be accessing CVS via extssh.

Thanks

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On 17/01/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

It’s in the standard library:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

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Farrel L. wrote:

It’s in the standard library:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

CVS not CSV lol :slight_smile:

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On 17/01/07, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

Thanks

Oops! My bad!

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Dan Uznanski wrote:

revision control system. CSV is Comma Separated Values, a common file
format. The library in stdlib is for the latter of these, though even
that has replacements, including most notably FasterCSV.

I am not aware of any other CVS manipulation libraries for Ruby, as I
usually use SVN.

Dan
When I said CVS not CSV, it was in regards to my original question.
I.e. my question was about CVS not CSV. But thanks anyway.

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On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:13 AM, Farrel L. wrote:

It’s in the standard library:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

Er… not quite. CVS is Concurrent Versioning System, an open source
revision control system. CSV is Comma Separated Values, a common file
format. The library in stdlib is for the latter of these, though even
that has replacements, including most notably FasterCSV.

I am not aware of any other CVS manipulation libraries for Ruby, as I
usually use SVN.

Dan

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ok, don’t worry about this now. It was quicker to write my own.

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[email protected] wrote:

I’ve had generally good luck with RSCM

http://rscm.rubyforge.org/

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I used a system call to interact with CVS from a command prompt, as it
was only CVS export that I needed.

I didn’t know about RSCM, it’ll certainly be something worth keeping in
mind for the future.

Thanks for that.