PassengerPane

A Mac OS X system preference pane which aids in quickly setting up Rails applications with Phusion Passenger.

Features include:

• Drag and drop support
• Managing hostnames without cluttering /etc/hosts

Requirements

PassengerPane

Obviously required. Version 1.1 superalloy.nl/misc_files/passenger_pane/PassengerPane-1.1.tgz

Phusion Passenger

Also a no brainer. You’ll need at least version 2.0.1. rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=5873&release_id=23286

RubyCocoa

PassengerPane needs at least RubyCocoa 0.13.2, which can be acquired in the following ways:

• Included on Mac OS X since version 10.5.2
• Binary installer or source sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44114&package_id=36578

Note that if you wish to use a custom Ruby, not the default Apple Ruby, you will have to install RubyCocoa from source as well. See rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/GettingStarted for more info on this topic.

Apache 2

PassengerPane is designed to work with the default Apache 2 installation supplied by Apple on Mac OS X 10.5.

Included with the archive you’ll find a file called "passenger_pane_config.rb.ports", this file should be a drop in replacement to work with Apache 2 as installed by MacPorts. Replace Passenger.prefPane/Contents/Resources/passenger_pane_config.rb with this file or your own custom config.

Support

Before creating a bug report, please check that you are using a RubyCocoa matching your Ruby installation and have met all other requirements mentioned above.

If the problem persist, or you have a feature request or better yet a patch, you can file a ticket at: fingertips.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13022

Changelog

v1.1

• Honor custom environments that a user might have set.
• Fixed problem with restarting Apache. After saving an application Apache should now automatically be restarted. Thanks to Ciarán Walsh.
• Added support for ServerAlias and add those entries to the hosts db.
• Reload the applications from disk when the preference pane is brought back to the front. Any changes made to the vhosts from elsewhere will be reflected in the UI.
• Moved all hardcoded paths into a config module. Added a config for Apache 2 as installed by MacPorts. Thanks to Ciarán Walsh.
• The host table list was editable. Thanks to Ciarán Walsh.
• Fixed bugs in parsing custom user defined data in vhosts.
• Create a tmp dir before touching restart.txt if none exists.
• Replace underscores with hyphens in hostnames. Thanks to Bryan Liles.

License

Copyright © 2008 Fingertips, www.fngtps.com, Eloy Duran <eloy@fngtps.com>, Thijs van der Vossen <thijs@fngtps.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.