From: Jeff Rose <rosejn@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T17:11:31+09:00
Subject: Re: best way for ruby to query subversion

Toby Catlin wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am writing a script to list files that are in a subversion repository. 
> I am only spiking at the moment but am having trouble.
> 
> Basically i want to execute the svn command "svn list 
> svn://ci.firstconsult.com/fc_codebase" and display what is returned. I 
> have looked  at using system() but this simply returns true or false 
> upon execution.
> 
> As you can tell i am pretty new to the ruby game but i am sure there is 
> a simple elegant way of doing this.
> 
> thanks for any help
> 
> toby
> 

If you are just listing it might not be worth using the bindings, but I 
think newer versions of subversion come with ruby bindings.  (Although 
you might need to compile them if it isn't part of the regular build...) 
  That will give you a lot more flexibility.  For info on getting the 
bindings setup or to see example code checkout the collaboa project. 
http://collaboa.org

-Jeff