[Rails] SCM for a Rails project - Darcs or Subversion?

Chris McGrath
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:10:43 -0000

On 20 Apr 2006, at 16:15, Alder Green wrote:

> On 4/20/06, Chris McGrath <chris@octopod.info> wrote:
>> (...)
>> [1] Is an interesting read.
>> (...)
>> [1] http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/01/27/darcs-for-rails-users
>
> Yes, it is. It''s also the only text I manged to find about using
Darcs
> with Rails. There are a few others, discussing deployment issues with
> Darcs compared to smoother operation with SVN. So not very
> encouraging.

Different from the problems on the other articles I mentioned? If so
can you give me URLs as quick google didn''t turn up much for me.

> The Rails wiki has several detailed treatments of SVN Rails
> development and deployment. Many other texts exist, some going into
> quite a bit of detail, like for example [1].

That''s a nice article, and could be translated to darcs, which
I''d do
if I had more time.

> With so little information available online (and afai could determine:
> also offline), I had to try to get a sense of how many developers
> actually use Darcs to manage their Rails code, and a rough estimate of
> the overhead it incurs compared to the better-supported SVN, assuming
> I don''t use RadRails and probably won''t need SwitchTower
or
> Capistrano.

I know a few who do, but most run svn, especially if they have public
code. Guess it''s whatever you feel most comfortable with. I''m
not
sure what you mean by overhead mind you.

If you''re deploying to unix I''d *really* *really* recommend
checking
out Capistrano, I can''t imagine using anything else now!

Cheers,

Chris