chrisk · August 10, 2010 18:55 · Aug 10, 2010
diff --git a/remove_old_submodules.rb b/remove_old_submodules.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Git doesn't remove submodules from your working tree when you pull. This Rails
+# initializer will take care of it for you, so developers don't have to do
+# anything.
+
+paths = %w(vendor/gems/first_gem-1.0.0
+           vendor/gems/another_gem-1.0.0)
+
+paths.each do |path|
+  dir = Rails.root.join(path)
+  if File.directory?(dir)
+    puts "Automatically deleting #{dir.sub(Rails.root.to_s + '/', '')}, since it's an old submodule that we removed"
+    FileUtils.rm_rf dir
+  end
+end