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Ruby script to install bulk gems
Dec 8th
Recently I had to setup many rails servers and for that I had to install some gems again and again by issuing traditional “gem install xyz” command several times. This was actually very annoying.
To avoid issuing “gem install xyz” command again and again, while setting up new machine, I wrote a utility script in ruby. This script read a list of gems and install them by avoiding ri and rdoc installation for gem.
This script saved lots of my time. Here is the Ruby script to install bulk gems, if you would like to give it a try.
Download this script and save as .rb. Run this script by “ruby install_gems.rb” and follow the instructions on screen.
Bash script for creating new rails project and initial SVN import (with ignoring/removing log/other files)
Jan 10th
Many times we need to create a new rails project and import it to SVN repository. Each time we have to repeat same commands for creating new rails project, Initial import to SVN, Ignoring *.log files, move database.yml to database.example, ignoring tmp/sessions etc.. etc..
So I have written a bash script that do all this stuff, all you need to do is copy this Bash script (for creating new rails project and initial SVN import with ignoring/removing log/other files) to any of your directory with name “create_rails_with_subversion” and execute this script by issuing ./create_rails_with_subversion & follow screen instructions.
This will:
- create a new rails project
- initial import to SVN
- remove and ignore all log files from svn
- remove and ignore sessions, cache sockets files from tmp dir
- move database.yml to database.example
- ignore database.yml
I also love to have your feedbacks…
UPDATE: I have modified this script, now it doesn’t remove tmp dir, it just ignore content in tmp/sessions, tmp/sockets and tmp/caches 
UPDATE2: Script again modified , now it also freeze rails (you have to specify version).