Executables gives you an ability to run your rails app's executables via a web interface.

With the help of simple configuration options you can tell executables to expose your executables. Executables will fetch all the executables as per the configuration options, along with their respective executable methods and arguments they accept thus giving you an ability to execute them.

Read more here to know more about the intentions behind building executables.

Using executables is easy and it requires minimal configuration, please follow below steps to start using it.

1. Add executables to your Gemfile:

  gem 'executables'

2. Add a initializer in config/initializers to tell executables where your executables are, like as follows:

Executables.configure do |c|
  c.root_directory = Rails.root
  c.executable_directories = ['app/workers']
end

3. Mount web application on desired url, add following to your config/routes.rb:

  require 'executables/web'
  mount Executables::Web::App => "/admin/executables"

You can also use constraints like as follows to limit access:

  require 'executables/web'
  executables_constraint = lambda { |request| request.env['warden'].authenticated?(:admin) }

  constraints executables_constraint do
    mount Executables::Web::App => '/admin/executables'
  end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/rohitcy/executables.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.