Hari Rajagopal wrote: > > Can someone explain how do I install patches. >
I can’t believe that a straightforward, reasonable question like this went unanswered for 2 and a half years. Especially given how little info there is about applying or installing patches out there. Anyway, this is how to install/apply patches once you’ve got the .diff file* downloaded. I don’t know how to do it from repositories, I’m a newbie too sadly, but hopefully this will be useful to someone. * note - often patch files are named .dif or .diff, but often they won’t have any file extension at all. They usually come double-zipped in .tar.gz despite only being one file. First, unzip the patch file completely, and put it in the root directory of your app. For the next step, you need a bash console – the ones where there is a $ before each input line. This is a unix thing, Linux and Macs come with them as standard - though I don't know if they have the 'patch' binaries as standard, sorry. If you’re using Windows, install CygWin from cygwin.com. Cygwin doesn’t come with the ‘patch’ binaries package as standard – you need to add it during the setup process. There’ll be a screen offering you a huge list of categories of packages. Hit the ‘View’ button to switch to an alphabetical list of all packages to find 'patch'. Once you’ve got a bash shell with patch installed, open it, navigate to your app’s root directory, then do a patch command to apply the patch. This will usually look like this:- $ patch -p0 -i name_of_patch_here I say ‘usually’ because, to be honest, I don’t know what -p0 or -i do, but it works for me. If that doesn’t work as expected, on one site, I saw it written this way:- $ patch -p0 < name_of_patch_here.patch That should work. I hope this is useful to someone and saves you the hours it took me to find it all the hard way... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
