Creating Edge Rails Projects via Git on Windows or Mac 4
Brian Hogan has a sequel to his original article for creating a local Rails project with the edge version of Rails. Now that Rails is in Git instead of Subversion, Windows users especially have to jump through a hoop or two to get the code down.
For those new to Rails, “edge Rails” referes to the latest bleeding edge of the Rails code (the “nightly builds”, if you will, though edge rails is built continuously as patches are submitted, not just nightly). Creating a new Rails project with edge rails, instead of a released version like 2.0.2, allows you to start learning about the features that will be in the next version. If you (like me) like to do that, Brian’s article is a great resource.
Brian articel is really great!
"Windows users especially have to jump through a hoop or two..."
OK, I get it. If we are developing Rails applications we should be using a Mac (does the Rails team have shares or something?) and TextMate etc. But as a Rails community, if we alienate the majority of users e.g. Windows, there's an inherent risk that these people will simply give up and look for something that is just easier, like Python. Especially now with the new hype, Google's App Engine (which rocks btw). I sure as hell aint gonna go out and buy a £1000+ OS just to be in with the "in crowd" and I'm wondering how many others will?
Don't get me wrong, I love Ruby and I love Rails (I've been campaigning for the last 2 years to convince my employer to let us use it), but I just think that we need to accept everyone and treat them all the same, not giving precedence to any development environment and making it accessible to all to allow full acceptance.
Just my 2 cents.
Good article, nonetheless.
Hm. Using git is actually the new hype. It’s clear to me, changing the version control was some kind of ‘needed to be done’, since subversion has it’s disadvantages. The sad thing is, there are very powerful alternatives to git as a distributed source control. Just think of mercurial (alias hg) or darcs which are available for linux, windows or mac equally. Mercurial for example is used by the opensolaris or the netbeans communities. These are very large open source projects too… It feels a little bit to me as if hype is sometimes equivalent to blind. Sorry! But that’s my opinion.
Anyway: What could be a solution? Since Linux developers are using mercurial too (git was created by Linux Torvalds for the source control of the Linux kernel), it should not be an unreachable goal to integrate it into rails as an equivalent alternative.
Ha, ha :-) LinuX Torvalds. That’s a Freudian I suppose… g