Deploying a source code hosting app

rubyonrails-talk
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So I’m currently building a github/gitlab clone (not visually, just an app to host remote repos that allows you to do pushes and clones and see the repo’s files)

Now, I did read through the Git Book’s chapter on setting up git on the server, but I’m a bit stuck.

2 issues, for me, at least:

  1. I’d like to be able to test my app works locally. Meaning I’d like to be able to maybe navigate to some folder and say git clone repo_url and it would hit my application and be able to successfully clone the repo Here I have a few “sub questions”:
  • I’ve noticed that, maybe with SSH, I’d need to learn some configuration so that my app only trusts keys in a specific place (say some folder in the app). Is that a correct assessment?
  • Otherwise, if I try to hit it with an http url, how do I configure the application? The book only mentions setting up apache with a CGI script. I know what these are at a high level, but I don’t know what this entails for a Rails app nor how to set this up locally
  1. Any recommendations on how to set up a git server using something like heroku or fly? Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance!

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There are gems for things like this. Try searching ruby gems.org for… “git”

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Yeah, so the reason I was avoiding the gems is that, being an exercise, I’m trying to implement this specific behavior on my own

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Sure, but you can look at the source of those gems to get an idea how you’d go about implementing it yourself.

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Well, yes. I’ve actually gone through gitlab’s code to get some ideas, for starters. But as much as I know that reading source code can help, I tried asking here precisely to try a more direct route, in case anyone happened to know hahaha

But yeah, I’ll probably end up looking at these gems then.

Thanks, everyone!