piston and git for the win

Piston has had support for git (both importing from, and into) for a little over a month.

Before that, I felt like developing a rails app in git was a bit painful. Considering most plugins are kept in subversion, you’re only real option is using svn export to install plugins, and check that into git. There was braid, but I really didn’t have any luck with it.

But, like I said, it’s all good now. It hasn’t been officially released (ie as gems), but you can build and install it yourself easily enough.

$ git clone git://github.com/francois/piston.git
$ sudo gem install -y main open4 log4r
$ cd piston
$ sudo rake install_gem

Pretty straight forward to use.

$ cd vendor/plugins
$ piston import git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git
INFO main: Guessing the repository type
INFO main: Guessing the working copy type
INFO main: Checking out the repository
INFO main: Copying from Piston::Revision(git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git@42083ffa31e0a9792472780854ddd81bcc9b2f61)
INFO main: Checked out "git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git" 42083ff to "restful-authentication"

And since it’s since it’s being developed in a git repository, and on GitHub, it’s extremely easy to start contributing.

I mean, if I can contribute something, I’m sure you can pull it off too :)