I have updated my app_version Rails plugin to support getting build numbers from Git. This is of necessity a little kludgy. The plugin allows you to specify either ‘git-revcount’ or ‘git-hash’ as the build. ‘git-revcount’ will set the build number to the number of commits on the current Git branch and ‘git-hash’ will set the […]

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I recently changed hosting providers and I am still in the process of moving everything over. One headache that I don’t need is recreating all of the Subversion repositories that I had hosted on the old service. So, I have decided to move the code for my plugin to GitHub.

The plugin’s code is now […]

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Following up on my , GitHub is now officially live (hat tip: Ruby Inside). So, what are you waiting for, got host some code!

Be sure to checkout GitHub’s Guides, including the list of cool and unusual Git techniques. Finally, the aforementioned Ruby Inside post also pointed out this Ruby and Git roundup at InfoQ.

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Git seems to have gained a lot of traction lately. Just last week the Ruby on Rails core team announced that they are moving the official Rails source repository to Git. The core team took a lot of flak for the move, but I think it is a good one.

Rails will be hosted on the […]

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