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.