# Switching to edge rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 26, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455 "2006-01-26T03:25:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/1 "2006-01-26T03:25:26Z")
Hi, I want to start using has\_many :through. I think that eventually I’ll be removing all uses has\_and\_belongs\_to\_many from my project. Here is my situation I’m using SVN I want to use edge rails Reading the wiki about switching to edge rails[1], I can’t figure out which combination of subsections I must perform. Do I want edge rails to reside in the vendor directory? Will this make SVN checkouts of my project take a long time? Thanks, Peter [1] [Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/EdgeRails) ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/2 "2006-01-26T05:35:05Z")
Hey Peter, You can modify the vendor directory’s svn:externals property by running svn propedit svn:externals vendor/ Add this line: rails [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk/) The next time you run “svn up” it will download the entire trunk to the vendor/rails directory for you. If you want to negate that option, you can use the following as of SVN 1.2 ([http://subversion.tigris.org/svn\_1.2\_releasenotes.html](http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.2_releasenotes.html)) svn checkout/update/status/export --ignore-externals Don’t process any svn:externals during operation. Regards, Nathaniel. ```auto Nathaniel S. H. Brown http://nshb.net ``` ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/3 "2006-01-26T17:36:39Z")
Hi Nathaniel, That seems to bring up the VIM editor which I have no idea how to use. I can type but I can’t save or exit. I have to use kill to abort the mission. Any way to edit with textmate or textedit? Thanks, Peter ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/4 "2006-01-26T17:45:42Z")
Hi Peter! On 26/01/06, Peter M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Nathaniel, > > That seems to bring up the VIM editor which I have no idea how to use. > I can type but I can’t save or exit. I have to use kill to abort the > mission. Do you know how to create a string of characters with a good randomness? Tell clueless user to quit vi 🙂 Next time try: ESC :wq! Any way to edit with textmate or textedit? > Not sure about mac but on Linux in your home directory there is a file ~/.subversion/config in which you may specify editor used for writing commit logs and editing properites. ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/5 "2006-01-26T18:15:53Z")
I figured out enough vim to get the job done. I was hoping to avoid vi for the rest of my life but it wasn’t so bad. Now, all I have done is switch from gem rails to edge rails and all of a sudden I get a stack level too deep error when I try to view certain pages of my site. Is there a place that describes what changes I must make to my app to get it ready for edge rails? Thanks, Peter ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/6 "2006-01-26T18:21:54Z")
On 1/26/06, Peter M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > That seems to bring up the VIM editor which I have no idea how to use. > I can type but I can’t save or exit. I have to use kill to abort the > mission. > > Any way to edit with textmate or textedit? For TextMate, assuming you installed the command-line tool “mate” (instructions are provided during installation or somewhere in TM’s help), you can add this to your ~/.profile file: EDITOR=mate; export $EDITOR – Michel Valdrighi Devéloppeur Web Intraordinaire > **[Onsego Review- College Ready Scores! | ZenGun](https://zengun.org/onsego-review-college-ready-scores/)** ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/7 "2006-01-26T17:45:42Z")
On 1/26/06, Peter M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Nathaniel, > > That seems to bring up the VIM editor which I have no idea how to use. > I can type but I can’t save or exit. I have to use kill to abort the > mission. > > Any way to edit with textmate or textedit? It’s a command line switch. [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re20.html](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re20.html) On a related note, it’s well worth learning the basics of vi if for no other reason than you might one day find yourself working on a Unix box with no other choice of editor. ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/8 "2006-01-26T19:58:29Z")
On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Peter M. wrote: > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) Peter- ``` You need to set the $SVN_EDITOR env var to the text editor you want ``` to use for entering your svn commands. So for textmate you should have the mate command installe dto open files from the cli. So in your ~/.bashrc you should add the follwing line: export SVN\_EDITOR=mate ``` Or you can call the svn command like this: ``` $ SVN\_EDITOR=mate; svn … Cheers- -Ezra Z. Yakima Herald-Republic WebMaster > **[yakimaherald.com | Yakima, Washington - We Tell Your Stories](https://www.yakimaherald.com/)** 509-577-7732 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@dracos](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dracos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switching-to-edge-rails/97455/9 "2006-01-26T18:40:04Z")
Peter M. wrote: > That seems to bring up the VIM editor which I have no idea how to use. > I can type but I can’t save or exit. I have to use kill to abort the > mission. [http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/faq/vi.help](http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/faq/vi.help) b