asciinema web app

asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.

This repository contains the source code of asciinema hosting web app, which runs at asciinema.org.

You can find the source code of asciinema terminal recorder at asciinema/asciinema, and the source code of asciinema web player at asciinema/asciinema-player.

Setup instructions

Below you'll find setup instructions in case you want to contribute, play with it on your local machine, or setup your own instance for private use or for your organization.

Quickstart Using Docker Compose

Required:

• Docker
• docker-compose 1.5+

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asciinema/asciinema.org/master/docker-compose.yml
$ docker-compose run --rm db_init
$ docker-compose up -d web

You can override the address/port that is sent in email with login token by passing HOST="host:port" environment variable when starting the web server.

Assuming you are running Docker Toolbox and VirtualBox: go to http://your-docker-host:3000/ and enjoy.

Manual setup

1. Install dependencies

asciinema.org site is a Ruby on Rails application. You need to have following dependencies installed:

• Ruby 2.0+ (Ruby 2.1 is recommended)

• bundler gem
  gem install bundler

• PostgreSQL 8+ with libpq development headers
  sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev on Debian/Ubuntu

• asciinema's libtsm fork (asciinema branch)
  See here for installation instructions. If you don't install it now the setup script (point 4 below) will try to install it for you anyway.

• phantomjs 2.0+
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tanguy-patte/phantomjs && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install phantomjs

2. Get the source code

Clone git repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org.git
$ cd asciinema.org

3. Prepare database config file

Copy config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml. Then set database/user/password to whatever you prefer.

If database specified in database.yml doesn't exist then the following setup task will create it (make sure database user is allowed to create new databases).

4. Setup the app

Following script will install gem dependencies and setup database:

$ ./script/setup

5. Run Rails server

$ bundle exec rails server

6. Run the background job processor

The background job processor is needed for asciicast pre-processing and thumbnail generation.

$ bundle exec sidekiq

Contributing

Check out our Contributing page, which describes multiple ways you can help this project.

If you decide to contribute with the code then please read CONTRIBUTING.md, which covers submitting bugs, requesting new features, preparing your code for a pull request, etc.

Security

We're serious about the security of this web app and the user data it manages. If you find anything that looks like a potential vulnerability please read on how to report a security issue.

Authors

asciinema is developed by Marcin Kulik with the help of many great open source contributors.

For a complete list of the many individuals that contributed to the project, please refer to GitHub's list of contributors.

Copyright

Copyright © 2011-2017 Marcin Kulik. See LICENSE.txt for details.