genstaller

This is a quick and dirty installer for apps running on Intel Edison/Galileo. was written with the following use case in mind:

• We have a directory of files (in our case, node.js code) on a desktop computer
• We want to rsync changes to the device
• We want to launch node on the device
• We want to wait until the webserver is available
• When it's available, we want to redirect the user's browser to the appropriate URL on the device

Additionally,

• This process should provide a one click way to install a tool on a completely clean Edison/Galileo
• The user should not have to open a terminal to make it happen.
• It should work on Windows and OSX

Genstaller is a bash script and a batch file. For Windows, it includes some tools (rsync, scp, ssh, curl) which are included on OSX.

Setup

You should clone genstaller into a directory in or alongside your project directory.

Create two configuration files: genstaller_config and genstaller_syncfiles by copying the included examples. Alter genstaller_config as documented in the sample file. genstaller_syncfiles contains a list of files in DEST_DIR that should actually be rsync'ed to the remote device.

Mac users can double-click on start.command. Windows users can double click on start.bat.

Notes

genstaller will execute $DEST_DIR/run.sh on the remote side. This script should generally clean up from previous runs of the app, and execute whatever needs to be executed. Here's an example run.sh:

#!/bin/sh

cd `dirname $0`

ps | grep app.js | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
node app.js

TODO

• Better windows support. I primarily test on OSX.

NOTES

• Intel, would you PLEASE include rsync in your distribution images?