Comments on: Creating a new rails app shouldn’t be boring

By: Rajesh Duggal

Rajesh Duggal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:35:57 +0000

rspec is on github..
The link in this blog entry and the railify.rb code can be updated…

from:
http://ropiku.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/installing-rspec-with-braid/

to:
http://ropiku.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/braid-04/

Cheers,
Rajesh Duggal

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Hi Geoff,

Yes, I have the same problem with braid - when trying to install rspec/rspec-on-rails it’s hanging on git-index-pack.

By: Matthew Bergman

Matthew Bergman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Really Really newbie question here but I’ve been teaching myself all of this. I understand exactly what this does and how it does it. Very clean/nifty. But what steps do you do to use the script. Not how do you get it, you download it with git. But where do you put it if anywhere to run on your os. Or should we just symlink it. And also is it just railify your_app? I know, its really sad that I don’t know this.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Well I just copied and pasted, added a couple extra bits I normally want, saved the file to ~/bin/railify, set ~/bin/railify executable and all was dandy.

Basically it just needs to be somewhere in your shells $PATH, you could put it in /usr/bin if you felt like it.

Then just use like

prompt> railify app_name

and leave it to finish. If it hangs for a while on a git repo check to see if git-index-pack is running. For some reason braid has issues with that, I’ve poked around but not found a fix for it.

I’ve seen the braid git-index-pack hang on the rspec, rspec-rails and rails git repositories.

I might try taking a look at git submodule but I don’t know if I can use this to track svn repositories in git as well.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Mathijs: I’ve started noticing braid hanging on some git repositories while doing a git-index-pack. I can’t quite work out why as it works fine on the command line.

Chris: rake rails:freeze:edge would do roughly the same thing if you kept updating it and committing all the differences between your last freeze. Again yes its a bit like plugin install but you keep the links to the plugins in your repository and your braid/track branch. So you can have a bit more control over what version of rails or a plugin you’ve frozen to. Makes working with remote repositories less of a moving target.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Thanks Geoff, I’m starting to see its value now :) However, I’m having a problem getting it to work ->

braid add git://github.com/technoweenie/permalinkfu.git –type git vendor/plugins/permalinkfu

gives me:

braid: Checking out work branch ‘braid/track’. braid: Adding git mirror from ‘git://github.com/technoweenie/permalinkfu.git’, branch ‘master’ into ‘vendor/plugins/permalinkfu’ using local branch ‘braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master’. braid: Setting up remote branch and fetching data. braid: Error occured: fatal: ‘braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master’: unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Cannot get the repository state from braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master fetch braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master: command returned error: 1 braid: Resetting braid/track to 26218373c99ccf12c5dd1779d5ccab74156a4b70. braid: Checking out branch ‘master’. braid: An exception has occured: fatal: ‘braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master’: unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Cannot get the repository state from braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master fetch braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master: command returned error: 1 (fatal: ‘braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master’: unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Cannot get the repository state from braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master fetch braid/git/vendor/plugins/permalink-fu/master: command returned error: 1)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Great script!

I’m a little confused about a couple of things -

I don’t quite understand the need (or use) of braid. If I want to freeze edge rails why don’t I just do rake rails:freeze:edge ?

Also, is braid just another way of doing a script/plugin install ? If so, could I use script/plugin install git://git_project (since this is enabled in edge rails)

Chris

By: Mathijs

Mathijs — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Wow, very nice and clean script!

I couldn’t get braid to work with git repositories though.

announcing “Installing sexy_scaffold” do
braid “git://github.com/foca/sexy_scaffold.git”, “vendor/plugins/sexy_scaffold”, “git”
end

end

Now, I’m very new to git, so I don’t know if what braid added to .git/config is actually right.

Anybody got this script to work with plugins in git repos?

Thanks

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

Mathijs: Does using braid manually work for you? The way braid works is by creating its own branch of what its tracking. You then merge the braid/track branch into your master branch.

I’ve admittedly not had a chance to actually test out this script, works been keeping me too busy to run a simple script. How bad is that…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:16:26 +0000

I have now tried it and yes it works fine for me with git repositories