[Rails] Quick question about source control...

[Ben Schumacher]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:16:49 -0800, Michael Koziarski
<koziarski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:10:51 +1100, Peter Sumskas <petersumskas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I may be totally off-track (probably, since I work with windows most
> > of the time) but couldn't you put in an `ln -s` from
> > /usr/local/bin/ruby to $HOME/ruby1.8.2/bin/ruby or some variant of
> > using soft-links to simulate the same structure as you have on your
> > production environment?
> 
> This is probably the best solution, or almost. On almost all unix
> systems /usr/local is owned by root so you won't be able to stick a
> symlink in there.   But he could link ~/ruby1.8.2/bin/ruby to
> /usr/local/bin/ruby on the powerbook.
> 
> Seems like the way to go.

Thanks for the feedback. The only problem with this solution is that I
have to create a "home" directory on my Powerbook that maps to my home
directory in the production environment on my hosting service. So to
do this right, I'd need to create a direcotry (/home/username) for the
new bin directory to live (OS X's home directories live in
/Users/username). Now this probably isn't a huge deal, but it didn't
totally feel right.

For the record (in case somebody else comes back with this question),
here's what I finally ended up doing. In place of the standard shebang
(#!/usr/local/bin/ruby) in dispatch.cgi, I went with this:

#!/bin/sh

exec env PATH=/home/ghaven/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin ruby -x $0 "$@"

#!ruby

So basically I setup the PATH the way I want it and then reexec ruby
based on that PATH. This makes it so my /home/ghaven/bin is the first
search hit and when the script is running at my hosting service, it
uses the correct ruby environment.

Thanks for you comments!

Cheers,

Ben

 
> > P.
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:00:49 -0700, Ben Schumacher
> > <benschumacher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just wanted to make sure I'm on the right track... the general idea
> > > for source control with rails is to import the entire ~/myapp (for
> > > example) directory into whatever source control system used, correct?
> > >
> > > Does anybody have any suggestions for how to handle environmental
> > > differences on development boxes?
> > >
> > > For example, I host most of my sites using pair Networks. In their
> > > environment, I've had to install (obviously) my own version of ruby
> > > 1.8.2 and rails in $HOME/ruby-1.8.2... I more or less followed the
> > > instructions on the Wiki for this...
> > >
> > > However, for development, I use my Powerbook most often (which I can
> > > do sans Internet connection)... which has ruby 1.8.2 installed in
> > > /usr/local/bin... if I update the shebangs at the top of the
> > > dispatcher.* and the scripts/* directory to work with pair, it no
> > > longer works on my Powerbook. My directory structures are different
> > > enough, and while I could just setup /usr/home/blah/bin on my
> > > Powerbook, this seems kinda silly... there must be a better way,
> > > right? In addition, I want my database.yml to point to my Powerbook
> > > when working on it, so I don't have to be connected to work on it.
> > > (I'm on too many planes, obviously...) Has anybody else solved this
> > > issue? I'm using CVS for my source... I'm sure there must be a
> > > clever/elegant way to do this, but I haven't figured it out yet...
> > >
> > > The easy solution (of course) would be to just .cvsignore the files
> > > that are "localized."
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
> > >
> > > bs.
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> 
> --
> Cheers
> 
> Koz
>