I'm wondering if people have strategies for doing this. Background: I have a single page Javascript app backed by Rails. The javascript is regularaly polling the server to check for updates on a top level object's attributes, and triggering various events when those attributes change.
I'd like to add some kind of build identifier into the json that's sent in response to the poll requests, so whenever a new deploy is done I can trigger a 'There's an update, please reload the whole page' pop-up. I guess ideally I'd like to include the git commit id in code somehow, but svn style keyword substitution seems to be discouraged. I'd like the solution to work if the deployed code is not actually a git checkout. I'd like a solution that doesn't require me to manually update a config version number somewhere. Malc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
