Working with spingloops: Getting Started

Posted on Jun, 19 2008

We are starting a series of tutorials for using springloops.com to help you manage and deploy your next web projects. This article/tutorial will cover the basics of setting up your project and deploying it across your team members.

Let's get started by first understanding what springloops is. Here is a direct quote from springloop.com website:

Springloops is a unique source code management tool focused on web development teams. It allows you to code in parallel and share your code safely concentrated on results, not on lost changes or overwritten files. You get rapid collaboration in protected space. Thanks to the project management perspective it serves the getting things done attitude. Moreover, Springloops reduces repeatable activities in your day-to-day work.
It makes great things simple.

What this means is that springloops is essentially a subversion repository, with a great interface and a visual way to keep you in the loop. In this article/tutorial we will not cover the basics of subversion as many of you are already familiar with it. To find out more about subversion please visit the official subversion website.

Without further ado, let's begin our tutorial.

Step 1: Create a free account

In order to get started with springloops you will need to create your free account. Please note that there are several paid account options which should cover most of your needs. However for the sake of our tutorial we will only be covering the basic free account.

Step 2: Create a new project

Once inside, you can now create a new project. You can name your project whatever you like but we will be using test as example. Leave the template drop down as is no need to modify anything else and click the create button. Moving on.

Step 3: Check out your project

In this step we will assume that you have a test server setup with ssh access. We will use this to check out our newly created project from springloops to your server. First shh to your new server and the directory that you will want to use. Next step is to find your project repository url. Under your project you can click on my repository access details and you will find a url formatted similar to this https://youraccount.springloops.com/source/test.

You will now need to enter the following command into your command prompt:

svn checkout https://youraccount.springloops.com/source/test/trunk --username --password

The username and password are referring to your springloops account information.

Step 4: Add your files to the server



You can now upload all the necessary project files into your server directory. After that you can run svn status command to add and then commit your files to your new project. after committing the files you should see them show up in your new project.

Thats it folks, I hope this little tutorial will help you get started with springloops.