From: Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T18:48:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Remote IRB shell (embedded in rails)

On Saturday 05 May 2007 04:39, eden li wrote:
> Interesting... although it sounds a bit insecure since you don't
> authenticate and it's being run in the clear over the wire.
>
> I wonder if there's a way to get ruby to tunnel this via ssh.
>
ssh remote host 
irb

or is it to simple for you?
but well it's insecure - but you can always add authentication and do it over 
ssl
> On May 4, 7:37 pm, Charles Lowe <aquas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wasn't able to find this functionality in rails to begin with, so I
> > wrote a small wrapper to allow you to provide direct IRB shell access
> > into any long running app (for debug purposes, or as a way to control a
> > remote machine).
> >
> > In your app, just require irb/server.rb (http://pastie.caboo.se/58859),
> > then run irb/client.rb (http://pastie.caboo.se/58858), passing it the
> > DRb url.
> >
> > This allows me to run an IRB window on my local machine, with access to
> > the currently running rails app on my server.
> >
> > Hope you find it useful...
> >
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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