# Easiest way to play w/ source **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731 "2005-11-23T22:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/1 "2005-11-23T22:17:45Z")
Hi, So, I’m looking into possibly adding the functionality I mentioned in my last note. What’s the easiest way for me to play with the source? I’ve got the svn repo checked out. Can I just have webbrick somehow point to the svn directory that I’m modifying instead of the installed gem? I’m pretty new to ruby, so I’m not too familiar with the way the ruby path works. Coming from the java world, I’m hoping I can just put my svn directory before the gems directory on the classpath? Any developers lend a tip here? Thanks, Ben ---
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/2 "2005-11-23T22:21:47Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Ben A. wrote: > Hi, > So, I’m looking into possibly adding the functionality I mentioned in > my last note. What’s the easiest way for me to play with the source? > I’ve got the svn repo checked out. Can I just have webbrick somehow > point to the svn directory that I’m modifying instead of the installed > gem? I’m pretty new to ruby, so I’m not too familiar with the way the > ruby path works. Coming from the java world, I’m hoping I can just > put my svn directory before the gems directory on the classpath? $ cd /path/to/my/app $ rake freeze\_edge This checks out svn trunk to your vendor/rails dir. If you have a vendor/rails dir, it’s used instead of the gems. jeremy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDhN1YAQHALep9HFYRAkxTAJ9kL3WGU0Z24OSV4S1jvINrHySZVwCfWo1s 6379E7dH8nL5hs5SDaFbsy4= =fvmr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/3 "2005-11-23T23:06:16Z")
cool, thanks jeremy. I did that and now I’m getting this when starting webbrick Processing Base#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2005-11-23 17:00:13) [GET] Parameters: {} TypeError (cannot convert nil into String): /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:228:in `load' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:228:in`load’ /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:52:in `require_or_load' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:52:in`enable\_warnings’ /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:52:in `require_or_load' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:28:in`depend\_on’ /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:199:in `require_dependency' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:199:in`require\_dependency’ /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:155:in `load_file!' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:118:in`const\_load!’ /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:101:in `each' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:101:in`const\_load!’ /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:71:in `prepare_application' /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:37:in`dispatch’ /vendor/rails/railties/lib/webrick\_server.rb:117:in `handle_dispatch' /vendor/rails/railties/lib/webrick_server.rb:83:in`service’ c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service' c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in`run’ c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:155:in `start_thread' c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:144:in`start’ c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:144:in `start_thread' c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:94:in`start’ c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in `each' c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in`start’ c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in `start' c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in`start’ /vendor/rails/railties/lib/webrick\_server.rb:69:in `dispatch' /vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59 c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in`require\_\_’ c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:18:in `require' /vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in`require’ /vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/server.rb:28 c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:18:in `require__' c:/ruby/ruby-1.8.2-15/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in`require’ script/server:3 Rendering ./script/…/config/…/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/templates/rescues/layout.rhtml (500 Internal Error) Any ideas? Thanks, Ben ---
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/4 "2005-11-24T14:49:38Z")
Thanks Jeremy. svn up doesn’t work because they are no .svn directories. I did run “rake freeze\_edge” again and now rails runs ok. I decided to whack that directory and just check out the svn trunk in vendor/rails instead of using “rake freeze\_edge”. This lets me do updates. It looks like the only difference is that “rake freeze\_edge” only includes the lib directories. Are there any gotchas doing it this way? Anyways I’m modifying the source and its working good. Also, I noticed I have to restart webbrick everytime I make changes to rails. Is there a way to get around this? Also, is this the right list to ask development questions? Is there a better place to ask these kinds of questions? Thanks, Ben ---
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/5 "2005-11-23T23:34:29Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Ben A. wrote: > cool, thanks jeremy. I did that and now I’m getting this when > starting webbrick That’s a bug 🙂 $ cd vendor/rails $ svn up And it should be fixed. jeremy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDhO3SAQHALep9HFYRAtI5AKDUMA62M/HLUZqrddXIeKBkf7n48wCePCno xqJw1YJVAAEC18ZcYKXSfxg= =oP9Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/6 "2005-11-24T21:00:58Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 24, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Ben A. wrote: > Thanks Jeremy. svn up doesn’t work because they are no .svn > directories. I did run “rake freeze\_edge” again and now rails runs > ok. I decided to whack that directory and just check out the svn > trunk in vendor/rails instead of using “rake freeze\_edge”. This lets > me do updates. It looks like the only difference is that “rake > freeze\_edge” only includes the lib directories. Are there any gotchas > doing it this way? Anyways I’m modifying the source and its working > good. I’d just go with the svn checkout. It’s annoying to have to run the rake task. Sorry for the misinformation. > Also, I noticed I have to restart webbrick everytime I make changes to > rails. Is there a way to get around this? No. The reloading behavior is meant to be fast and convenient for application developers; Rails hackers can manage on their own 🙂 > Also, is this the right list to ask development questions? Is there a > better place to ask these kinds of questions? The rails-core list is meant for discussion of Rails development, but it’s just as welcome here. jeremy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDhhs/AQHALep9HFYRAsUVAJ44X7IicXA+vo8CnSRFuE+vBEJfGQCgpKis X6/+uYrPaqvM4d90rOO+ZqY= =e6LW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@benanderson.us](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benanderson.us)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easiest-way-to-play-w-source/48731/7 "2005-11-24T15:46:06Z")
On 11/24/05, Ben A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Also, I noticed I have to restart webbrick everytime I make changes to > rails. Is there a way to get around this? Unfortunately not… but if you were running your application as CGI under some other webserver (with rails in /vendor/rails) then you could - at the expense of tolerable speed. - james