Setting up a bleeding edge Symfony2 project

Symfony2 is not ready yet. Since the release is planned for March this year and I just can't wait any longer I started to play with it more seriously.

I also want to know all those nitty-gritty details. Therefore I didn't go for sandbox and decided to generate a fresh project.

There are already several articles describing the process using the symfony-bootstrapper:

• Make your own Symfony2 sandbox (the easy way) (by @webPragmatist)
• Symfony2 project initialization (by @henrikbjorn)
• Symfony2 project from scratch

Symfony2 internals are being changed every day. For someone who wants to be always up to date I think it's better to utilize git submodules for vendor libraries. Here is slightly modified process of generating your own Symfony2 project.

Let's start with getting the Symfony2 bootstrapper:

    git clone git://github.com/symfony/symfony-bootstrapper.git ~/workspace/lib/Symfony2-bootstrapper

We'll need a project directory and a git repository as well:

mkdir ~/workspace/projects/FooBar
cd ~/workspace/projects/FooBar
git init .

Finally we can initialize a Symfony2 project so the basic directory structure is in place:

cd ~/workspace/projects/FooBar
php ~/workspace/lib/Symfony2-bootstrapper/symfony.phar init --name 'FooBar' --format="yml"
git add app/ src/ web/
git commit -m 'Bootstrapped Symfony2 application.'

Last but not least we'll install Symfony2 and other vendor libraries as a git submodules:

cd ~/workspace/projects/FooBar
git submodule add git://github.com/symfony/symfony.git src/vendor/symfony
cat src/vendor/symfony/install_vendors.sh | grep "git clone" | awk '{print "git submodule add "$3" src/vendor/"$4}' | while read line; do $line; done
git commit -m 'Added vendor submodules.'