What happens to people who try to use Rails with another CMS

Rails
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Just curious, because the Subversion hooks seem so pervasive and
un-polymorphic in all the Rails source.

Do people who try to use Perforce or CVS get used as pinatas? Do they
wake up in the middle of the night with glowering Tiki statues at the
foot of their beds? Do their relatives inflict endless penguin-themed
CGI movies on them? Does the RIAA accuse them of stream-ripping and
put them on no-fly lists?

–
Phlip

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Phlip wrote:

Just curious, because the Subversion hooks seem so pervasive and
un-polymorphic in all the Rails source.

Do people who try to use Perforce or CVS get used as pinatas? Do they
wake up in the middle of the night with glowering Tiki statues at the
foot of their beds? Do their relatives inflict endless penguin-themed
CGI movies on them? Does the RIAA accuse them of stream-ripping and
put them on no-fly lists?

I have had no problems at all with using Mercurial. It’s just as
straight forward as using Subversion. Only issue I’d see is if you
really like svn:externals and/or piston, but, at least for me, these can
be lived without (and probably duplicated in some way or another).

Kyle

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Rails uses SVN because it’s pragmatic. SVN is IMO the best source
control
software out there, and it’s the one DHH and team decided to use as it’s
got
the most traction right now.

Of course, the only places SVN is explicitly used is rails:freeze:edge
and
in plugin install, depending on how it’s installed. There is no
requirement
of having SVN to use Rails. I’ve done Rails with cvs just fine.

If you’re being kept up at night by glowing Tiki statues, I suggest
finding
an excorsist :stuck_out_tongue:

Jason

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On Jul 25, 9:38 am, Phlip [email protected] wrote:

Phliphttp://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/assert_raise_on_ruby_do…
We use CVS at my workplace… no problems.

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Good thread guys

If you’re being kept up at night by glowing Tiki statues, I suggest finding
an excorsist :stuck_out_tongue:

“glowering”

and we use SVN because … it’s the best so far!

I was thinking about experimental code like rake test:uncommitted,
that unapologetically shells to SVN without any adapter layer…

–
Phlip
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/
“Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)”
assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax

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On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Jason R. wrote:

SVN is IMO the best source control software out there

I can think of a number of Perforce advocates (and one Linus
Torvalds) who’d take issue with the idea that svn is the best source
control software out there. I don’t even know that I’d agree with
the statement, and I (happily) use svn heavily. svn could use opaque
collections, automatic fs behavior (i.e. get rid of svn mv and svn
cp), local interim commits, far better merge support, fully
transactional commits, etc. People in favor of fully distributed
“trees” won’t be happy with svn either.

-faisal