Show the current SVN revision in your Rails app

1 · Ariejan de Vroom · Dec. 13, 2006, midnight
I’m current developing a Rails application. I deploy this application to a demonstration server using capistrano. To streamline feedback and bug reporting I want to show the current revision number of the code that’s published on the demo server to show in the footer of every page. First I looked into Subversion keyword expansion, but this is marked as ‘evil’ and it doesn’t meet my requirements. I want to show the latest revision number of the entire repository and not just that of the current f...