Sdrcs - My first real project

[Dralnu]

I'm waiting awhile to release this. I havn't felt a real need to release it, plus there are several other projects out there that do the same thing just fine.

A few features it has:

Handles checkin, checkout, and commits
Fairly easy to configure
Print out the entries in the repository

What hasn't been implemented:

automatic patching (don't really know a good way to do this, honestly)
Find a prettier way to handle version numbers (current format for release versions is xx.xx)
easier method of forking a project and maintaining the trees seperatly, and allowing the generation of diffs as ongoing between the two

[desultory]

This might be obvious, but it is the most useful advice I can offer given the somewhat vague description you gave. Unless you are following a specific coding standard use whatever structure is most convenient for you to write, maintain and use.

[Dralnu]

No standard. Just trying to learn mostly.

The reason I was looking for suggestions was that I didn't know the best way to handle this. I think I'll throw the methods into a file, and keep the rest in a main file.

[desultory]

Generally, I prefer to separate things according to logical structure, unless it interferes with clarity or maintenance, or I have some other reason to keep everything in one script.

[Dralnu]

Ok, thanks.

Right now, though, I am going through and having problems with some of the layout, but before I go much farther what I'm making is a revision control system that isn't networked, but made for a lone dev (seemed like a useful project in the long run, and I don't see the point in making a program I won't use).

I'm debating, though - put code into a central repository, or have it structured out into, say, your code is in /home/user/projects/code/foo, and the revision control system drops this into /home/user/projects/code/foo/repository, or to drop it all into a single directory (its using tar, btw), or keep revisions avalible locally (drop them into ~/projects/foo/repository) and have the releases put into a rep (~/repository).

And suggestions? It seems to me the later would be the more ideal move since you can keep your code close at hand and tar/untar it as needed (might work it out to make it possible to open multiple archives), and keep the releases in a central place to make them easy to find.

[Dralnu]

Generally, I prefer to separate things according to logical structure, unless it interferes with clarity or maintenance, or I have some other reason to keep everything in one script.

Thats what I'm thinking about doing, the problem is, though, that there are several methods that require other methods, which makes nesting them a bit touchy at times. I think I can handle it, though.

[Dralnu]

FYI - ran a test - it works. I'm so happy right now.

Well, the commit test ran smoothly. I still need to handle versioning automatically, but that can come later (I'm going to have to code in some no-clobber code for this).

I'm going to place the rep in the dir the code is in. Keep it close at hand.

[Mindwolf.com]

Off topic about your project, but if Ruby is so similar to C, why not just use C? Is there any point using Ruby exclusively?

[Dralnu]

Off topic about your project, but if Ruby is so similar to C, why not just use C? Is there any point using Ruby exclusively?

Learning Ruby.

I might redo it in C later, but right now I'm rather enjoying Ruby.

[Dralnu]

Some advancements - it pretty much works. I'm still missing part of the script with commit and the version numbering system, but right now the thing works. Lets just call it. 0.1 for now. I'm going to release it at some point in time, as well, on Sourceforge.

[papal_authority]

I tried to like Ruby, but it seemed to really want to force OO programming on you. Not as badly as Java does perhaps, but enough to irritate me. Coupled with that weird "capitalized names are constants" thing, it was too much for me. Again just personal opinion, I'm sure the language is great for some people

[Dralnu]

I tried to like Ruby, but it seemed to really want to force OO programming on you. Not as badly as Java does perhaps, but enough to irritate me. Coupled with that weird "capitalized names are constants" thing, it was too much for me. Again just personal opinion, I'm sure the language is great for some people

It has caused me some headaches, but for most of what I've done with it, its done well. Its fairly simple to learn, and doesn't take long to start figuring out.

[alistair]

I tried to like Ruby, but it seemed to really want to force OO programming on you. Not as badly as Java does perhaps, but enough to irritate me. Coupled with that weird "capitalized names are constants" thing, it was too much for me. Again just personal opinion, I'm sure the language is great for some people

How does Java force OO on you more than ruby?

[papal_authority]

I tried to like Ruby, but it seemed to really want to force OO programming on you. Not as badly as Java does perhaps, but enough to irritate me. Coupled with that weird "capitalized names are constants" thing, it was too much for me. Again just personal opinion, I'm sure the language is great for some people

How does Java force OO on you more than ruby?

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class JavaIsGhei {  
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Java is ghei!");
  }
}

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

puts 'Ruby is slightly less ghei'

[Dralnu]

Alright:

So far, I've scrapped the old code I was using and went back to the version I'm using to all my work. I've put the code I was working on back someplace to use for refrence (a few functions in it are rather handy).

My main problems now are:

Try to get a list of files, figure out which is the newest (based on either a date/time, or by version number), and then taking it to be the one to extract.
I get that working, and I think I'll be pretty much 90% done (the remaining 10% being cleaning up the code, and trying to speed it up)

[yardbird]

How does Java force OO on you more than ruby?

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class JavaIsGhei {  
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Java is ghei!");
  }
}

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

puts 'Ruby is slightly less ghei'

PWNED.

[Dralnu]

Hrm. So I have come across a problem. I'm trying to grab from a list the one with the highest number in it. The pertenant block of code is as such:

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puts "Extracing latest development version...\n\n"
#                       system("#{$utar_command} #{$repository_location}#{tarname}-#{}.tar.bz2")
                         puts Dir.entries("#{$rep_loc}")
                         puts "\n\nExtraction completed into working directory."

This is what I want done:

take a list of directory entries, find the one with either A) the highest number (for the development versions, which is stored in YYYYMMDDHHmm format...) from the list, and unless otherwise specificed, use it or B) Take a number of a version (in x.x format, for the time being), and take the newest release and extract it (unless otherwise specified, of course).

I've made (some) progress (I figured out the Dir.entries bit, so you have to give me credit for SOME work...).

OR, does anyone know of a good tutorial on this kind of thing? I'm honestly fairly lost here (even though I'm sure its a simple solution), so at least a point in the right direction would be nice.

[Dralnu]

ALRIGHT! I've pretty much gotten it to work. Its not perfect, but it WORKS! The code is kind of ugly, and I've got some doc work to do, but so far, IT WORKS. I'm proud of myself.







Thanks to the folks on #ruby on irc.freenode.net for their help. I had plenty of headdesk moments with it, and they helped me alot.

[Wietze]

Could you release the specs of what it does plz ?

[Dralnu]

Could you release the specs of what it does plz ?

Pretty much: It tars a directory/file and throws it into a directory. Fairly simple.