passify

passify is a command line interface (CLI) for Passenger, equivalent to what powder and powify are for pow. I used the PassengerPane, however I wanted the simplicity and speed of a CLI for that task.

Installation

gem install passify

Usage

passify is fully compatible with the PassengerPane, and only runs on MacOSX right now. The first step after the installation is to run the install-command:

passify install

This is necessary to ensure that Apache is set up correctly. If Passenger and the PassengerPane are already installed this command does nothing. To create a new application enter the application path and run

passify add [name]

The application name is optional, if none is provided passify creates the name from the current working directory. After creating an application it can be opened in the browser by running

passify open

To restart the application run

passify restart

To remove the application run

passify remove [name]

To change the rack environment to e.g. production run

passify env production

To show the current rack environment run

passify env

A list of all applications served with passify can be viewed by running

passify list

Open the configuration file for the current application if $EDITOR is set, otherwise show the path to the file.

passify conf

Last but not least, passify can be removed from Apache by running

passify uninstall

Please note that this will also disable the PassengerPane. If you don't want to use passify anymore, but keep on using PassengerPane, just remove the gem:

gem uninstall passify

RVM

It makes sense to create a wrapper for passify if you are using multiple versions of ruby. If passify as installed for MRI 1.8.7, run the following command:

rvm wrapper 1.8.7 --no-prefix passify

Changelog

0.2.3 (25-11-2011)

• add possibility to remove hosts if the directory was already deleted
• show in ls-command if application has been removed

0.2.2 (25-11-2011)

• added conf command to which opens the configuration file if $EDITOR is set, and shows the path otherwise
• fixed small bug with list-command showing truncated paths for legacy apps
• added well known shortcuts for several commands

0.2.1 (25-11-2011)

• fix crash when environment command is called on legacy app

0.2.0 (18-11-2011)

• create a .passify file to save the host
• added -h and -v shortcuts

0.1.2 (16-11-2011)

• added env-command to change rack environment

0.1.1 (12-10-2011)

• added support for legacy application

0.1.0 (27-08-2011)

• initial release

License

Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for further details.