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I just created my first balloon! Balloons are web pages that double as Ruby programs.

This magical balloon will automatically configure your subversion repository for a new Rails project. It goes like this: make a new Rails project in a working copy directory, inflate the balloon, and presto! Your repository is configured.

http://balloon.hobix.com/svn_configure

Here’s what the balloon does:

• Adds all files
• Ignores files in tmp/ and log/
• Creates a sample database.yml and ignores the original
• Sets permissions for log/ and public/dispatch.*
• Tells subversion which files should be executable

This won’t automatically check in changes; you must check them in yourself.

Here’s the Ruby that makes it all possible.

require 'fileutils'

def ignore(path, pattern='*')
  `svn rm #{path}/#{pattern} --force`
  `svn propset svn:ignore '#{pattern}' #{path}`
end

# Backup the database.yml file
FileUtils.cp 'config/database.yml', 'config/database.yml.tpl'

# Add all the files
`svn add . --force`

# Ignore stuff
ignore 'config', 'database.yml'
ignore 'tmp'
ignore 'log'

# Copy database.yml back
FileUtils.cp 'config/database.yml.tpl', 'config/database.yml'

# Set the correct permissions for logs
FileUtils.chmod 0775, 'log'

# Set permissions for dispatchers
%w{rb cgi fcgi}.each { |ext| FileUtils.chmod 0755, "public/dispatch.#{ext}" }

# Tell subversion which files are executables
`svn propset svn:executable ON public/dispatch.* script/process/*`