Another post as a reference item for me.
Setting up a subversion project
Create the trunk, tags and branches subdirectories. bq.
svn import /path/to/project http://server.com/svn/path -m "Initial Upload" svn checkout http://server.com/svn/path/trunk project name
Then some general housekeeping for Rails apps and subversion: bq.
svn remove log/* svn commit -m "Removing Logs" svn update svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/ svn commit -m "Ignoring Logfiles"