Appjour

Publish your app in the ether using Bonjour.

Installation

sudo gem install dnssd
sudo gem install johnbarratt-appjour --source=http://gems.github.com

Usage

rincewind$ appjour leet_merb 4000
Publishing leet_merb on 4000 with path /
Announcing leet_merb...

therapy$ appjour leet_merb 4000 /hello_world
Publishing leet_merb on 4000 with path /hello_world
Announcing leet_merb...

death$ appjour leet_merb
# ... leet_merb pops up in web browser ...

death$ appjour
Searching for servers (3 seconds)
found web app called 'leet_merb'

# use the username if only the port is specified
rincewind$ appjour 4001
Publishing lachie on 4001
Announcing lachie...

Port guessing

In the initialization phase of your app put:

Appjour.publish('leet rails')

Appjour will endeavour to extract the port number from your app.

It can currently discover mongrel’s port.

TODO

• make useable as Rails or Merb plugin for automatic publishing of apps