[Rubyibm-developers] installing IBM_DB plugin on Windows platforms ...

[Alex Pitigoi]

I seems we have a favourable response so far on a request posted on 
RubyForge-Forum to enable HTTP access to SVN stored plugins:
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=12787&forum_id=2



By: Gregory Brown
RE: hosting Rails plugins on RubyForge (http) [ reply ]   
2007-03-22 11:18 
Hi Alex,

I'd like to see HTTP SVN access too.
As far as implementation details go, this all looks pretty helpful, so 
I've pinged Tom to see what he thinks, he can take it from here.

Thanks!
-greg 




By: Alex Pitigoi
hosting Rails plugins on RubyForge (http)... [ reply ]   
2007-03-22 10:37 
After going through a few posts on the subject including the FAQ and the 
smart and very interesting solution suggested (RailsPluginPackageTask), I 
still have a few questions to clarify.

I am interested in hosting the plugin through http:// access, given that 
for Windows platforms this seems to be the only way for script\plugin to 
find and install (while svn:// access works fine with *nixes). Our 
project, rubyibm, is hosted in a SVN repository, and in our local sandbox 
we served a similar SVN repository through both SVN (svnserve) and HTTP 
(apache2). That gave us plugin install access, from the same repository, 
from both Windows and *nix clients.

Implementing the solution suggested in the FAQ would imply (from my 
understanding) a cloning of the repository content in the project www 
directory (/var/www/gforge-projects/<project_name>), and that would be 
somewhat of a burden...

That being said I was wondering how difficult would be to enable RubyForge 
infrastructure to allow a straight dav_svn access?

And here's some context regarding what we've used in our local sandbox to 
enable http access to our SVN repository. Now, I have little knowledge of 
the RubyForge infrastructure and this might not fit the picture, but I 
hope together will find a way somehow.

# -----------------------------------------------------------------
# Import new project into a newly created SVN repository project
#
$ sudo svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svn/repos/plugins
$ sudo svn import -m "Initial import" /tmp/newplug 
file:///var/svn/repos/plugins
$ sudo chown -R svn.www-data /var/svn/repos/plugins
$ sudo chmod -R g+w /var/svn/repos/plugins
$ sudo chmod g+s /var/svn/repos/plugins/db
$ sudo usermod -G svn,www-data,<user_name> <username>
$ svnlook tree /var/svn/repos/plugins/
# -------------------------------------

# -------------------------------------
# Check Apache2 server DAV-SVN configuration and restart
#
$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/default # Apache2 default access 
globals
$ cat /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd # Apache2 DAV-SVN authentication config
$ cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf # Apache2 DAV-SVN 
authorization config
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart # Apache2 server restart
# -------------------------------------

regards,
AlexP 


----- Forwarded by Alex Pitigoi/Toronto/IBM on 23/03/2007 09:57 AM -----

This needs to be solved rather soon for Windows users/developers to take 
advantage of the clean and seamless install provided by the plugin. On 
Linux/Unix the install is behaving as expected given the SVN access to 
rubyibm repository is smooth, but on Windows only an HTTP access is 
accepted by the script\plugin.

The current solution in Rubyforge mentioned on the FAQ (
http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/460/faq.html#railsplugin) doesn't 
cut it either in my view, as it implies a duplication of the repository. 
Normally an SVN repository can easily be enabled for access with both SVN 
(svnserve) and HTTP (apache2), but current Rubyforge portal doesn't seem 
to allow, unless the plugin tree is prepared and uploaded to the project 
web page.

So, for now Windows users/developers will need to stick with Gem install 
(one manual step involved) or install from source and all other manual 
steps described in the README:

1. Linux and Unix platforms:
  REGISTER REPOSITORY and QUERY
  $ ./script/plugin  source 
svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rubyibm/trunk/IBM_DB_Adapter/ibm_db/
  $ ./script/plugin list

2. Windows platforms:
  REGISTER REPOSITORY and QUERY  (not enabled yet @rubyibm.rubyforge.org)
  D:\NewApp>ruby script\plugin source 
http://rubyibm.rubyforge.org/IBM_DB_Adapter/ibm_db/
  D:\NewApp>ruby script\plugin list


P.S. the current project web location for HTTP plugin install is reachable 
by browser, but script\plugin is yet happy with it:
http://rubyibm.rubyforge.org/IBM_DB_Adapter/ibm_db/


Regards,
Alex Pitigoi

^^^
Marlin: How do you know if they're ready?
Crush: Well, you never really know, but when THEY know, you know... 
y'know? - <Finding Nemo>

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