Comments on: Extended-Bort: My base Rails app

By: Lakshan

Lakshan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:18:30 +0000

@Paulo This is one of the pitfalls with the use of Git submodules. I always try to keep the HEAD updated, to match with the latest releases of plugins.

Can you try running this and see…
cd vendor/plugins/cucumber
git remote update
git merge origin/master

By: Paulo

Paulo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:20:49 +0000

For some reason, I can’t get cucumber v0.1.10 to be download as submodule, instead, it insists on getting the v0.1.9 and if I just clone the same URL it will get latest. am I missing something?

By: Chirag Patel

Chirag Patel — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:06:34 +0000

$ git submodule update
Initialized empty Git repository in c:/chirag/mindmap/extended-bort/extended-bort/vendor/plugins/aasm/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 501, done.?[K
remote: Compressing objects: 90% (189/209) Receiving objects: 61% (306/501)
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (209/209), done.?[K81/501)
remote: Total 501 (delta 329), reused 437 (delta 286)?[K
Receiving objects: 100% (501/501), 62.43 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (329/329), done.
error: Entry ‘lib/aasm.rb’ would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.
Unable to checkout ‘fee9487e0d5464fc328f1c9c91eb059fef75988e’ in submodule path’vendor/plugins/aasm’

By: Lakshan

Lakshan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:59:54 +0000

Jay,

Basically moving your app and db/migrations folders to Bort base app, would be good to go.

You could use git-svn to checkin and checkout from your existing SVN repo. You could learn more about it from here - http://utsl.gen.nz/talks/git-svn/intro.html

My personal advise is switch to Git over SVN if you can afford. While Git has lot more flexibility than SVN, also it would reduce the hassle in keeping up with the edge of Rails and it’s plugins.

BTW, if you feel extended-bort is too complicated there is a update of orginial Bort for Rails 2.2 (http://github.com/fudgestudios/bort/tree/master).

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:35:38 +0000

I’m new to the whole Rails thing, so please forgive the simplicity of this questions: What’s the best practice to update my existing Rails 2.0 application to a Bort-based one? Should I just start out with a fresh Bort and move my models, views, and controller to it? That’s probably the right answer. However, how do check the resulting stuff into my svn repository? It seems messy to checkin Bort, with all its depedency git repository stuff inside of it. Should I not be using subversion as my source control system? I don’t know git. Can I somehow “sparsely checkout” my stuff atop a fresh git of Bort? And then maintain source control that way?

By: Lakshan

Lakshan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:38:57 +0000

Scott O,

I have fixed the link to annotate_model sub-module. It should work correctly now.

By: Scott O

Scott O — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:45:34 +0000

One must cd extended-bort before doing the two submodule steps.

The second submodule step fails:

$ git submodule update
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/scott/projects/extended-bort/vendor/plugins/aasm/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 493, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (201/201), done.
remote: Total 493 (delta 323), reused 438 (delta 286)
Receiving objects: 100% (493/493), 61.43 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (323/323), done.
Submodule path ‘vendor/plugins/aasm’: checked out ‘fee9487e0d5464fc328f1c9c91eb059fef75988e’
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/scott/projects/extended-bort/vendor/plugins/annotate-models/.git/
fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got ’
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fetch-pack from ‘git://github.com/rotuka/annotate-models.git’ failed.
Clone of ‘git://github.com/rotuka/annotate-models.git’ into submodule path ‘vendor/plugins/annotate-models’ failed