• Make sure Ruby, Rails, MySql & Subversion are installed and working properly on your machine.

• Create 2 databases: atlrug01_development & atlrug01_test

• Login to Assembla where the atlrug coding project 1 is being hosted. You need to be invited to the atlrug project in order to checkout the project with subversion.

• Checkout the atlrug project: svn co http://tools.assembla.com/svn/atlrug. You will have to enter your assembla password and username in order to check the project out.

Here are two options for syncing the data between development databases in rails:

1. export and import sql—using a command like this one…

mysql -u root -p atlrug01_development < /path/to/your/project/.../atlrug/atlrug01/trunk/atlrug01/db/development_data.sql

2. fixtures + yaml

I placed a rake task in lib/tasks that will take whatever is in the db and dump that into a yaml fixture located in test/fixtures.

After checking out the latest version of the project, you run rake db:migrate & rake db:fixtures:load to import the yaml to your db.

Full instructions here: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3393