Accessing CVS from within a ruby application

[Rob.Garwood]

Hi,

I need to access a CVS repository (read only) from within a ruby
application. I have found the libraries CVStools and Ruby/CVS. Are
there any others? If not has anyone used these and would you recommend?
I am running ruby on WinXP and will be accessing CVS via extssh.

Thanks

 

[Farrel Lifson]

Hi,

I need to access a CVS repository (read only) from within a ruby
application. I have found the libraries CVStools and Ruby/CVS. Are
there any others? If not has anyone used these and would you recommend?
I am running ruby on WinXP and will be accessing CVS via extssh.

Thanks

It's in the standard library:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

 

[Rob.Garwood]

It's in the standard library:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

CVS not CSV lol

 

[Dan Uznanski]

It's in the standard library:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

Er... not quite. CVS is Concurrent Versioning System, an open source
revision control system. CSV is Comma Separated Values, a common file
format. The library in stdlib is for the latter of these, though even
that has replacements, including most notably FasterCSV.

I am not aware of any other CVS manipulation libraries for Ruby, as I
usually use SVN.

Dan

 

[Farrel Lifson]

CVS not CSV lol

Oops! My bad!

 

[Rob.Garwood]

Er... not quite. CVS is Concurrent Versioning System, an open source
revision control system. CSV is Comma Separated Values, a common file
format. The library in stdlib is for the latter of these, though even
that has replacements, including most notably FasterCSV.

I am not aware of any other CVS manipulation libraries for Ruby, as I
usually use SVN.

Dan

When I said CVS not CSV, it was in regards to my original question.
I.e. my question was about CVS not CSV. But thanks anyway.

 

[Rob.Garwood]

ok, don't worry about this now. It was quicker to write my own.

 

[Mike Harris]

Hi,

I need to access a CVS repository (read only) from within a ruby
application. I have found the libraries CVStools and Ruby/CVS. Are
there any others? If not has anyone used these and would you recommend?
I am running ruby on WinXP and will be accessing CVS via extssh.

Thanks

I've had generally good luck with RSCM

http://rscm.rubyforge.org/

 

[Rob.Garwood]

I used a system call to interact with CVS from a command prompt, as it
was only CVS export that I needed.

I didn't know about RSCM, it'll certainly be something worth keeping in
mind for the future.

Thanks for that.