# Subversion | CVS | Sourceforge | OS X : Tutorials **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 26, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529 "2006-02-26T17:59:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529/1 "2006-02-26T17:59:48Z")
Can anyone suggest some step-by-step tutorials for using CVS or Subversion on Sourceforge with OS X ? I’m a new to RoR and creating a Sourceforge project was recommended as a way of working and learning from/with others. But I can’t get over the hurdle of transferring what I’ve already build to csv.sourceforge or subversion.sourceforge. All my attempts generate command line errors. \_tony ---
**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529/2 "2006-02-26T21:10:52Z")
The best book out there is 'Version Control with Subversion by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato Now the good news! It’s availabe online for free at [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) or on paper from O’Reilly. The book is also available as a Debian package. If you have a utility to install .deb packages under OSX then you should be able to fetch it from [debian.org](http://debian.org) and install it. -bakki ---
**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529/3 "2006-02-26T22:08:37Z")
Bakki K. wrote: > The best book out there is 'Version Control with Subversion > by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato I’ve had a go through the red.bean book but its not really suitable. I need a step-by-step guide. \_tony ---
**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529/4 "2006-02-26T22:27:04Z")
Hi folks, Im pretty much a newbie to Rails and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the way of tutorials and/or some good books. I’m hoping to get up to speed quickly. Thanks, Michael ---
**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529/5 "2006-02-27T01:01:48Z")
Michael Greenberg wrote: > Hi folks, > Im pretty much a newbie to Rails and I was wondering if anyone can > point me in the way of tutorials and/or some good books. I’m hoping to > get up to speed quickly. Well, the first thing to do to make friends in this very busy mailing list is to /not/ hit reply to an existing message and then change the subject to create a new message. That messes up peoples threaded mail readers. Not to be scoldy or anything, but a lot of people just don’t realize that the email headers are different for a reply vs. a new mail. Now, as far as how to get up to speed on rails, I’d highly recommend you buy the Agile Web Development with Rails and probably the Programming Ruby (“Pickaxe”) book. There’s just too much to learn to get it all off of tutorials… that’s was my experience anyway. Now, if you tend to read technical explanations and just “get it”, you might do okay. Anyway there’s lots of stuff on the wiki: [http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails) And the rdoc for rails is very thorough (at least on the per-module docs): [http://api.rubyonrails.com/](http://api.rubyonrails.com/) Plus there’s the classic O’Reilly tutorial by Curt H. (though it’s a little out of date now): > **[Radar - O’Reilly](https://www.oreilly.com/radar/)** > > Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology And this large pdf is good too: [http://www.rails4days.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Rails4Days.pdf](http://www.rails4days.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Rails4Days.pdf) Good luck and welcome aboard! b ---
**Author:** ![acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@acgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acgreen)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 8:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/subversion-cvs-sourceforge-os-x-tutorials/73529/6 "2006-02-27T08:53:09Z")
Michael Greenberg wrote: > Hi folks, > Im pretty much a newbie to Rails and I was wondering if anyone can > point me in the way of tutorials and/or some good books. I’m hoping > to get up to speed quickly. > > Thanks, > Michael I’m a newbie too and found The Agile book and The Pickaxe book invaluable. Four Days on Rails is good too. For total newbies to programming, and I’ve seen postings on this list that indicate there are a few, Google for ‘database normalisation’ which should provide best practice guides to how to set up your sql tables. Also since Ruby is OO I’d suggest some guides to those concepts - inheritance, encapsulation etc. I came with a basic knowledge of PHP and there are some great intros to the (transferable) concepts via that language. \_tony