You just need something that can make HTTP calls and post xml or json. What do you have? Ruby's a good choice and quick install away :)

Keep in mind, these post-commit hooks go on your subversion server.

Hi, thanks for the reply. I've installed ruby and am working through issues in the post-commit script related to win vs linux.

I seem to be stuck at line 27, the error I get is "unexpected kEND, expecting $end'. I don't really know ruby at all so not sure what to change.

Does anyone out there know how ruby differs on win enough to know what I should do?

Thanks.

Can you post the ruby script that you have at gist.github.com? That error is a simple ruby parsing error. Be sure to sanitize any passwords or other sensitive data you might have. I just double checked the syntax in the example script and it's good, so it might just be a slight error in translation.

Thanks, here's the gist...

git clone git://gist.github.com/137727.git gist-137727

Line 8 should look like this:

    SVNLOOK = 'E:\Subversion\bin\svnlook.exe'

You used a tilde instead of a single quote there. It's probably a bit
confusing if you're new to ruby/perl, but tildes mark shell commands.
For instance:

    commit_author = `#{SVNLOOK} author #{repo_path} -r #{revision}`.chop

That runs the command "E:\Subversion\bin\svnlook.exe author
/path/to/repo -r 21356" and uses the output of it to set the
commit_author variable.

Hi RIck, Thanks for hanging in there with me on this.

So, made some progress to the point where, when I test from the command line, the hook succeeds. But when I look in the log, I see this error:

"Error: undefined method 'strip' for nil:NilClass trace:"

Thanks for any help you can offer. I guess after this at least we'll have a Windows version of the post-commit script to share :)

• Evan

Can you show the rest of the log? It'll tell where the error came from.