[MacRuby-devel] ControlTower in MacRuby

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Wed Jul 21 13:00:18 PDT 2010


I don't suppose you'd care to contribute an example?  This is clearly helpful!

- Jordan

On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Nick Ludlam wrote:

> On 21 Jul 2010, at 15:31, Alexander von Below wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I apologize for the repost, but I have not found help anywhere else...
>> 
>> My goal is to run a ControlTower instance (1) in MacRuby within a Cocoa app, i.e. using -[MacRuby evaluateFileAtPath:]
>> 
>> First question: Is this possible at all?
>> 
>> Second question:
>> 
>> I understand that my control script is the body to:
>> 
>> app = Rack::Builder.new { ... config ... }.to_app
>> 
>> but I have not figured out how to make an .rb file that will run a control tower instance. 
>> 
>> Any help is appreciated!
> 
> Hi Alexander,
> I've got a MacRuby app happily running very happily with Control Tower. First I cloned the code from github, and built and installed the macgem package. Then I also installed rack with
> 
> sudo macgem install rack
> 
> in order to get some of Rack's built in server functionality. Then a short script would look like:
> 
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'control_tower'
> require 'rack/utils'
> 
> server_options = { :port => 3001, :host => '0.0.0.0', :concurrent => false }
> 
> app = Rack::Builder.new do
>  map "/" do run Rack::File.new("/Users/nick/Sites/") end
> end.to_app
> 
> @s = ControlTower::Server.new(app, server_options)
> if @s
>  puts 'Starting control tower webserver'
>  @s.start
> else
>  puts "ERROR: Couldnt build server"
> end
> 
> This would run a server on port 3001, and expose the files found in your ~/Sites/ directory as top level files
> 
> eg. ~/Sites/index.html becomes http://localhost:3001/index.html
> 
> Of course you'd need to replace 'nick' with your user homedir name.
> 
> 
> Nick
> 
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