# Rails and Git: Rails code to serve git repositories?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-git-rails-code-to-serve-git-repositories/171488>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 3, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-git-rails-code-to-serve-git-repositories/171488 "2009-07-03T13:17:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bornboulder)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-git-rails-code-to-serve-git-repositories/171488/1 "2009-07-03T13:17:08Z")

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rails and git people,

I am searching for some Rails code I can use to serve git  
repositories.

Please alert me if you know of any projects which have this use-case.

In other words I want to create my own github.

thanks,

-bb

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**Author:** ![bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bornboulder)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-git-rails-code-to-serve-git-repositories/171488/2 "2009-07-03T18:45:38Z")

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Bjorn B. wrote:

> rails and git people,
> 
> I am searching for some Rails code I can use to serve git  
> repositories.
> 
> Please alert me if you know of any projects which have this use-case.
> 
> In other words I want to create my own github.

I don’t think there’s anything available, unless Gitorious has released  
its source (is that written with Rails? not sure), which is part of the  
reason that Github is such a big deal. You probably want to shell out  
to a native Git client, although Grit is also a possibility.

If you want to collaborate on this, e-mail me. I’ve been thinking of  
trying something like this myself.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bornboulder)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-git-rails-code-to-serve-git-repositories/171488/3 "2009-07-03T19:43:25Z")

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> I don’t think there’s anything available, unless Gitorious has released  
> its source (is that written with Rails? not sure), which is part of the  
> reason that Github is such a big deal. Â You probably want to shell out  
> to a native Git client, although Grit is also a possibility.

Well, another (costly!) possibility is to buy the real deal:

> **[GitHub Enterprise: a smarter way to work together](https://github.com/enterprise)**
>
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## Regards, Rimantas

[http://rimantas.com/](http://rimantas.com/)

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**Author:** ![bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@bornboulder](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bornboulder)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-git-rails-code-to-serve-git-repositories/171488/4 "2009-07-03T19:58:38Z")

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Rimantas L. wrote:  
[…]

> Well, another (costly!) possibility is to buy the real deal:  
> [http://fi.github.com/](http://fi.github.com/)

I didn’t know they were doing that now!

> ## Regards, Rimantas
> 
> [http://rimantas.com/](http://rimantas.com/)

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid