RakeDashboard

Does your application's deployment environment include shell access? Does it include ruby? No? RakeDashboard might be for you too!

Without a command line with ruby, it is hard to use rake. You may already have a lot of important functionality invested in your rake tasks. That makes sense, Rails ships a lot of great rake tasks.

RakeDashboard lets you run your rake tasks from a browser! Now you can throw your Rails apps over the fence as a warfile into a system you have no real permissions to use, and still:

  • update your database schema
  • seed your database
  • run your test suites

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rake_dashboard'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rake_dashboard

Usage

  1. Mount the RakeDashboard engine to your preferred path prefix, for example:
  Rails.application.routes.draw do

      mount RakeDashboard::Engine, at: "/rake"

  end

  1. Point your browser to your new route: /rake/tasks.

  2. Click on the task you want to run.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, 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 to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/rake_dashboard/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request