Bootstrapping from SVN

[Duane Johnson]

The way I've seen it done is to run "rake install" in a checked out  
version of merb.  Then it just installs a new gem over top of  
whatever gem your system has.

Duane

On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Brian Candler wrote:

> Is there a simple way to bootstrap merb directly from the Subversion
> repository, rather than first installing it as a gem?
>
> I can do the following if I already have an old gem lying around:
>
>    merb -g testapp        # using an old gem
>    cd testapp
>    rake merb:freeze_from_svn
>
> Unfortunately, that means I'm using an old version of the  
> generator. So for
> example, when I just tried this, the generator made a conf/ directory,
> whereas the code in trunk expects config/.
>
> Equally, I can't test any new features recently added into the  
> generator
> (such as the snazzy new screens committed in r464-r466), without first
> building trunk into a gem, and gem installing it over my existing one.
>
> I have tried:
>
> svn co http://svn.devjavu.com/merb/trunk merb
> cd merb
> ruby -Ilib bin/merb -g /var/tmp/test123
>
> but I get:
>
> Couldn't find 'merb' generator
>   /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubigen-1.0.3/lib/rubigen/lookup.rb: 
> 159:in `lookup'
>   /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubigen-1.0.3/lib/rubigen/lookup.rb: 
> 164:in `instance'
>   /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubigen-1.0.3/lib/rubigen/scripts/../ 
> scripts.rb:30:in `run'
>   /v/build/merb-trunk/lib/merb/generators/merb_app/merb_app.rb: 
> 13:in `run'
>   ./lib/merb/server.rb:216:in `run'
>   bin/merb:6
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian.
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