# Using Rails with Subversion

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**Created:** [May 19, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-rails-with-subversion/61003 "2006-05-19T06:11:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-rails-with-subversion/61003/1 "2006-05-19T06:11:29Z")

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I followed the instructions at Hivelogic on Building Subversion (SVN) on  
Mac OS X and installed it  
on my machine.

Now I am following the rubyonrails wiki on How to Use Rails With  
Subversion, it assumes that you  
have already created a subversion repository. Could someone please point  
me in the right direction  
for creating a subversion repository? Searching lead me to macdevcenter  
which seems to be  
applicable for a networked environment. Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![bparanj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@bparanj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bparanj)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-rails-with-subversion/61003/2 "2006-05-19T07:51:48Z")

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You really need to read the svn books. Start with:

[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/)

but don’t neglect “Pragmatic Version Control,” as it explains a number  
of concepts you may not get immediately from the svn book.

[http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/svn/index.html](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/svn/index.html)

Tip: If you get one of the Pragmatic books, always get the PDF version  
too. It’s searchable and travels along inside your laptop 🙂

You’ll need to decide whether to host svn locally or on a server. If  
you’re just getting familiar with svn and svnadmin, then go ahead and  
run against a local repository. When you use svn for its intended  
purpose – team software development and versioning – you’ll have to  
work with subversion hosted on a server that all members of your team  
can reach.

Hope this helps.

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**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-rails-with-subversion/61003/3 "2006-05-19T11:35:00Z")

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On 19 May 2006, at 06:09, Bala P. wrote:

> applicable for a networked environment. Thanks in advance.  
> [http://www.joshbuhler.com/2005/07/05/setting-up-the-subversion-client-](http://www.joshbuhler.com/2005/07/05/setting-up-the-subversion-client-)  
> on-mac-os-x/ (look in the comments, you’ll also need to edit both  
> the shell script and applescript file in the link provided to the  
> startup item)

I?ve actually got a few servers I use - we have one at work, there are some online repositories I connect to for some open source stuff, and then I have one running locally for my personal projects.

Setting up the local server wasn?t too bad, it took about an hour to  
get it working just right, but I?ve been using it now for months. Now  
that you mention it, it would be nice to have a guide on how to set  
it up, as I would have loved one. I?m headed out of town this  
weekend, so I?ll try to get a guide online before then, but if not,  
I?ll have one up shortly.

In the meantime, here?s how I did it in a nutshell:

Use svnadmin to create your repository, using the fsfs file system,  
that?ll save you the trouble of messing with the Berkely DB junk. But  
as of the latest version of SVN, I think fsfs is the default now.

Then, start your server by launching svnserve with the following  
command - svnserve -d -r path/to/repo

The -d tells it to run as a daemon, and the -r points it to the  
repository. You?ll find better details on these commands in the SVN  
Book you can find online.

Then, as you?ll need to start svnserve anytime your Mac restarts, I  
wrote a little shell script to launch it, which is run by an  
applescript that runs at startup. I?ve zipped those up for you if you  
like. Just open them up and edit the paths to match your system.

[http://www.joshbuhler.com/downloads/launchSVN.zip](http://www.joshbuhler.com/downloads/launchSVN.zip) - (20KB)

This should be enough info to at least give you a head start, and  
I?ll see what I can do about getting another guide online about how  
to do this.

Later -

Josh

Best regards

Peter De Berdt