Introducing Web Console 1.0 [Google Summer of Code 2013 Project]

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Hi There,

My name is Genadi and for the last 2 months, me and Guillermo Iguaran have been working on bringing rails console to the browser under the Google Summer of Code 2013 program. We named the project Web Console and as of this week, we consider the project stable and have released 1.0.0.

The great thing about the project is that it sneaks in a full-featured terminal emulator in the browser, so features like colors, auto completion, auto indentation work out of the box. That means that you can even run Pry and have its advanced features available. Running less or Vim inside of it is not a problem.

Because of the terminal emulator running most of the terminal applications just fine, we provide you a way to actually other commands than rails console. For example, if you are running a Unix flavor, you can run login to authenticate a user and spawn a login shell for it. I call that a poor man’s solution to SSH servers ;]

You can check out the project on GitHub for a bit more documentation on what the project can do and how (if you want to) to configure it to your likings.

Regards,

Genadi Samokovarov

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This is really cool! I’m super excited to get playing with it.

Out of curiosity, do you know if all of the other google summer of code project ideas have been filled? The project idea list doesn’t look like it’s been updated to indicate who actually got the Summer of Code grants to do the projects. https://github.com/rails/gsoc2013/wiki/Ideas

I’d love to work on some of these, but I’d like to avoid duplicating effort.

~Earl

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thanks for sharing … great job

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Hi Earl,

You can see this year’s accepted projects at http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/5/27/rails-google-summer-of-code-projects/. I guess that the guys will update the page again (or create a new one) during the preparation for the next Summer of Code (should Rails apply again). This should be around February/March of 2014. Other than that you can always apply with your own idea :slight_smile:

Genadi

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Brilliant, thank you!

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Well done!! I haven't tried it out, but this is quite an ambitious project and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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Please, do so! Would appreciate any feedback :slight_smile: