# Accessing CVS from within a ruby application **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 17, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099 "2007-01-17T12:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/1 "2007-01-17T12:05:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/2 "2007-01-17T12:13:55Z")
On 17/01/07, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It’s in the standard library: [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/3 "2007-01-17T12:21:56Z")
Farrel L. wrote: > > > > It’s in the standard library: > [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html) CVS not CSV lol 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/4 "2007-01-17T12:25:01Z")
On 17/01/07, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Thanks Oops! My bad! ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/5 "2007-01-17T12:31:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/6 "2007-01-17T12:23:58Z")
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](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 ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/7 "2007-01-17T16:21:01Z")
ok, don’t worry about this now. It was quicker to write my own. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/8 "2007-01-17T19:29:55Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > I’ve had generally good luck with RSCM [http://rscm.rubyforge.org/](http://rscm.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 11:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-cvs-from-within-a-ruby-application/82099/9 "2007-01-24T11:36:17Z")
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.