Re: [Rails-devel] How do I get the source?

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:49 PM, John David Galt
<jd...@di...> wrote:
> On 2011-12-11 16:07, brett lentz wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:19 PM, John David Galt
>> <jd...@di...> wrote:
>>> I want to create a new variant, but the .zip file doesn't seem to contain any
>>> XML, or for that matter any Java code.  Where is it?  (If I'm expected to use
>>> SVN or some newer gadget to get it, then I need instructions and passwords.)
>>
>> The source is available via the Git repository.
>>
>> Most of the basic instructions on cloning the git repository are here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rails/develop
>>
>> It's basically just that single "git clone" command.
>>
>> There's a ton of documentation on learning Git located here:
>> http://git-scm.com/documentation
>
> OK, I've gotten that far (after installing Cygwin).
>
> But I can't tell what to do to build the code.  "make_rails_pkg.sh" seems to
> be about creating a tarball, while I don't think I have either the programs
> that created "build.xml" and "buildRails.xml" or the ones that can use them.
>
> I have the latest JDK (7u2), but Cygwin installed its own version of Java
> and I'm not sure how you build a program under *either* version.  If there's
> a "makefile" I haven't found it yet.
>

I believe all of the build functionality is contained in the Ant
build.xml, so you should be able to just run "ant build" to get the
source to build. I believe you can install Ant via Cygwin's installer,
too.

For reference, Ant's docs are here: http://ant.apache.org/

>> I'm looking forward to seeing your patches posted to the list when
>> they're ready. :-)
>
> Me, too.  I've got a huge to-do list, about half bugs, half features. :)
>


---Brett.