From: ChrisO <ceo@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T08:31:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Any interest in a Ruby source code repository module modeled after DBI?

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> ChrisO wrote:
> 
>>I posted this in the Perl c.l.p.misc and c.l.p.modules newsgroups, and
>>while it's a long shot I would be able to port this to Ruby if there
>>were any interest, I could certainly be tempted to do so since I have
>>more than a passing fancy for Ruby (just little time and opporunity to
>>use it).
>>
>>But if no one in the Perl world wants this and the Ruby world is
>>receptive to it, maybe I would port this to Ruby.
>>
>>It's a source code repository module modeled after Perl's DBI (from
>>which Ruby's DBI is modeled it seems).  It allows one to access source
>>code repositories (VSS, CVS, Subversion, PVCS, MKS, etc.) through a
>>consistent interface (think about it, databases add, modify, update and
>>delete records -- hence DBI; why not checkin, checkout, label, add, etc.
>>files in an underlying SCR in the same way?) and even allows one to
>>extend the behavior of any or all underlying SCRs in a consistent manner.
>>
>>Details here:
>>
>>http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_frm/thread/a4b54460936b1fd2/c74f526490a8385f?tvc=1&hl=en#c74f526490a8385f
>>
>>
>>Let me know if there is any interest in the Ruby world for this. Contact
>>details in the URL above.
>>
>>-ceo
> 
> 
> There's something on RAA that sounds sorta similar:
> 
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/vcs/
> 
> but I haven't used it.
> 

So it seems.  I know of nothing like this in the Perl world.  But it 
looks like a very similar project to me.  Thanks for pointing that out. 
  I don't want to duplicate effort.

> I might be mildly interested in either or both of these because I use
> PRCS locally and CVS and SVN remotely. Unifying them in a single ruby
> interface would probably simplify rake scripts.

Indeed.  Sure helped my Perl framework, I can assure of that.

-ceo