Two simple tips for freezing your rails On the forum today Deirdre and Jordan reminded everyone of two easy and up to date tips for freezin’ your Rails. Deirdre’s (from inside a working copy of your rails app) $ export EDITOR=vi (or your editor of choice) $ svn propedit svn:externals vendor The contents should be rails http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-0-0/ Then commit it! $ svn comm