I was procastinating the learning of Git until necessary, well the time came. I am about to start a new project that will require Flex 3 (using Ruboss) for the user interface and Rails 2.1 as the backend. Both frameworks, Ruboss and Rails are now using Git as their source control system, and both are hosted on GitHub.

Therefore I grabbed my beta version of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git and started my journey.

Installing Git on Windows

Yes, I am working on Windows ... I should be using a Mac instead, maybe next year. Back to business, I found a good explanation on how to do this on Kyle Cordes Blog, installed the software, generated my SSH public key and now I am ready to roll.

Installing Rails 2.1

I had two options at this point for porting my application from 2.0.2 to 2.1.0:

1. Install Rails on the 'vendor' folder and leave it on the edge using Git with: git checkout master, or
2. Install the Rails Gem: gem install rails -v=2.1.0 -y

Since I don't need to be on the edge I opted for option 2 and then update Rails with: rake rails:update

After starting the server I got a warning about a deprecation:

DEPRECATION WARNING: 
config.action_view.cache_template_extensions option has been deprecated and has no affect. 
Please remove it from your config files.  
See http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation for details. 
(called from send at c:/ruby/186_26/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/lib/initializer.rb:455)

I removed the offending line from my config/development.rb, and voila. All routes and features work fine.

Installing Ruboss Rails 2.1 plugin from GitHub

Getting the plugin

This one was a bit tricky, I finally figured it out: right-click on the application folder, in my case "FileShare" and then click on "Git Bash here", then I installed the plugin from the new command line using the standard "ruby script/plugin install" :

$ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/dima/ruboss_rails_integration.git
removing: C:/Projects/Rails/Personal/FileShare/vendor/plugins/ruboss_rails_integration/.git
Initialize C:/Projects/Rails/Personal/FileShare/vendor/plugins/ruboss_rails_integration/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Projects/Rails/Personal/FileShare/vendor/plugins/ruboss_rails
_integration/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 99, done.←[K
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (77/77), done.←[KB/s    87% (87/99), 60.00 KiB | 103 KiB/s
remote: Total 99 (delta 26), reused 78 (delta 1←[K6Receiving objects:  91% (91/99), 60.00 KiB | 103
remote: )←[K
Receiving objects: 100% (99/99), 66.40 KiB | 103 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (26/26), done.
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installed yamlscaffold into script folder
copying ruboss.yml into config folder, customize if necessary
fetching latest framework binary from: http://ruboss.com/releases/ruboss-latest.swc ...
done. saved to lib/ruboss-latest.swc 

Installing the plugin

>ruby script/generate ruboss_config
identical  .flexProperties
overwrite .actionScriptProperties? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] y
force  .actionScriptProperties
overwrite .project? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] y
force  .project
create  html-template/history
overwrite html-template/index.template.html? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] a
forcing ruboss_config
force  html-template/index.template.html
identical  html-template/AC_OETags.js
identical  html-template/playerProductInstall.swf
create  html-template/history/history.css
create  html-template/history/history.js
create  html-template/history/historyFrame.html
create  app/flex/fileshare/components
create  app/flex/fileshare/controllers
create  app/flex/fileshare/commands
create  app/flex/fileshare/models
create  app/flex/fileshare/events
create  app/flex/fileshare/components/generated
create  public/javascripts/swfobject.js
create  public/expressInstall.swf
create  public/index.html
dependency  ruboss_controller
create    app/flex/fileshare/controllers/FileshareController.as
force  app/flex/Fileshare.mxml

Creating the YAML definition of the application tables

For my application the db/model.yml looks like so:

shared_files:
- name: string
- location: string
- size: integer
- belongs_to: [company, user]
roles:
- name: string
companies:
- name: string
- hash: string
users:
- login: string
- first_name: string
- last_name: string
- password: string
- enabled: boolean
- belongs_to: [company]
- has_many: [shared_files, permissions]
permissions:
- belongs_to: [company, user, role]

Generating the app

ruby script/yamlscaffold
rake db:refresh
rake ruboss:flex:build
ruby script/server 

Go to http://localhost:3000