Starting a rails project and throwing it into SVN
Yeah, I mean literally “throwing it.” 
We started up our first rails project recently which meant that we had to get the project into subversion. This wasn’t a particular problem in and of itself but I did have some interesting moments going through code to see what needed to be svn:ignore’d so we’d have a “clean” checkout when any of us needed to do so. This bash script from Jonathan Shea on textsnippets.com would have done the trick. I was able to piecemeal some parts together manually to get what I wanted out of it. A look through the script looks like it would have done all the dirty work for us and will be in our arsenal with whatever project is around the corner.