I’ve done a quick video tutorial on how to use subversion with rails for managing your code. Now if you’ve been a developer for a long time you’ll already know this stuff and more so it may be a good way to put yourself to sleep!
If your a new to rails, development, and source code control then this tutorial will hopefully make things a little easier to get your head around and you’ll find it’s quite easy to get started. For this tutorial, I’ve used a free subversion account with beanstalkapp.com which is easy to setup and use and gives you one free subversion repository to get started. Later you can upgrade your account to include SSL encryption and more for a few bucks a month
Before you start… you need to have rails and subversion already installed. This tutorial doesn’t show you how to install them. It just shows you how to use subversion with beanstalkapp.com. I also don’t show how to ignore files in subversion, often Rails developers ignore log files so they aren’t uploaded to the subversion repository.
This subversion tutorial is done on a Mac using the Unix command line terminal. If you have windows, you’ll need to setup your machine with a Unix style command line.
Watch the Subversion using Beanstalk Tutorial
The tutorial is one of my first so it’s a little rough around the edges. Any feedback would be great and any suggestions as to what you might want to see in another tutorial. If there’s enough interest, I’ll consider doing more video tutorials related to web design and development. Post any comments… good, bad or otherwise below.
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Thanks for all this input.
Great tutorial. There are loads out there, but they all go way over my head at least. There seems to be a big gap from knowing nothing about version control, to somehow knowing it all. I’m at the beginning of that scale, and any more like this would be very helpful. Thanks!
Hey Ben
Thanks for the feedback and glad to see that it may have helped somebody. I can relate to the frustration at trying to learn new developer skills particularly for beginners who aren’t doing this type of thing everyday.