Rubynoob

I currently do my development work on a WindowsXP PC running Subversion through Tortoise and I’m currently hosting sites with Dreamhost, a popular site for Ruby on Rails and PHP hosting. This is going to be a tutorial on how to get your rails apps up in a repository on Dreamhost, but you’ll be able to use to coordinate any sort of subversion repository on dreamhost.

First, let’s use the nifty tool that Dreamhost has provided for creating Subversion repositories. Go into your ControlPanel. Drill down into the Goodies menu and choose Subversion. You’ll see a dialog that looks like this:

Use whatever name you’d like and make sure to give it a useful Username and Password. Then you press the create button. On success you’ll see something like this:

In a few minutes you’ll receive an email from Dreamhost declaring that your new repository is now working. So, now let’s fill it with some stuff.

The easiest way to interact with Subversion under WindowsXP is to install the super excellent Tortoise software. This extends your Windows Explorer shell with the full functionality of Tortoise. We’ll look at this as we go through the tutorial. If you haven’t yet, please install Tortoise.

Now we need something to stick into our new Subversion project. Let’s create a new rails application. That’ll create all sorts of stuff. Go into the directory where you have your Rails apps and type something like:

rails SubSample