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If you've finished part two let's continue. In this part of the series I'm going to assume you have a working installation of MySQL on your local client machine that we will only need for testing purposes. If you've got a Mac you might look at installing MacPorts and using it to install MySQL for you. First we'll create a test rails project. I'm going to use the latest rails 2 sugar in setting up this simple test site. Open up terminal or iTerm and find a directory you want to use to create the test project. Here we go:

Now let's test our site to make sure everything is working correctly:

Open up your browser and try the site out using http://localhost:3000/widgets.

Then stop the web server using CTRL_C. Now let's go ahead and remove the index.html file:

Let's add the default route for our test website so that if you type in localhost:3000 it routes to our widget controller.:

Paste the following before the 'end' at the bottom of the file

Save the file and restart the server:

Try out our new route by going to http://localhost:3000. It should load our widgets list page.

Now let's install subversion:

Install ssh:

Create our repository:

Edit the svnserve config file:

Modify the following lines

Create the access rules file:

Paste in the following and save the file:

Create a svnserve startup file:

Paste in the following:

Make it executable:

Add it to the startup scripts:

Start the server:

Exit it out of our linux server. Now on our Mac we are going to edit our subversion config file

Add the following line inside the [tunnels] section

Save and exit nano. Now let's try everything out by creating a top level "projects" folder in our subversion repository from our Mac client:

If the directory got added were good to go. Now we can add our factory rails website. But before we do that lets setup a proper subversion folder structure using branches, tags, and trunk. Below is the folder structure I like (projects/[client_name]/[project_name])...feel free to change it however you'd like it to work. You could also create the folder structure manually locally on your Mac using mkdir and import it as the project.

Now let's import our factory project:

Now we should be able to list the folders using svn:

Now let's check out a copy of our factory project from our subversion server. First we'll create a new directory to hold our code called factorysvn:

Now you can edit your rails project and commit your changes using subversion. That's it for today. Next we will setup our rails project to use Capistrano and deploy it to our server!