Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

In fact, when using it with Rails, it is loaded only in development environment. With other frameworks you should take care of what middlewares you use in which environment.

Re: Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

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Post by jrom » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 1:37 PM UTC

I think this is a pretty cool tool, for both development/staging and also for production in a very restricted way. Every site has some kind of admin panel. I see this like a phpMyAdmin on asteroids for rack apps.

Definitely interesting.

Re: Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

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Post by patio11 » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 1:37 PM UTC

txus wrote: post #4

patio11 wrote: post #2

This is a very bad idea.

It is meant for development environments only. Nobody would risk putting a Ruby console in production :) In fact, when using it with Rails, it is loaded only in development environment. With other frameworks you should take care of what middlewares you use in which environment.

I would think long and hard about whether giving code execution privileges on your local machine to anyone who can convince you to click on a link is a good idea. Actually, this should not be either long or hard.

Edit to add: You don't even need to click on the link, you just need to view an image whose src I can manipulate. Ugh. Seriously: do not install on any environment anywhere.

Re: Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

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Post by ianpurton » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 1:38 PM UTC

txus wrote: post #4

patio11 wrote: post #2

This is a very bad idea.

It is meant for development environments only. Nobody would risk putting a Ruby console in production :) In fact, when using it with Rails, it is loaded only in development environment. With other frameworks you should take care of what middlewares you use in which environment.

I think you can achieve the same thing using shellinabox. Take a look at http://blog.servermonitoringhq.com/posts/the_ultimate_web_ba...

Re: Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

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Post by mef » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 1:49 PM UTC

Reading the headline, I was hoping this was a ruby-debug console in the localhost browser for the current request. Perhaps that can be shoehorned into rack-webconsole?

Re: Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

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Post by masylum » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 1:55 PM UTC

Cool! Firebug for the frontend, rack-webconsole for the backend.

Re: Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

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Post by damoncali » Mon, Jul 25, 2011, 1:56 PM UTC

Nice way to introduce Rack. Much better than the usual hello world.

I wouldn't use it for obvious reasons, but I like the demo.