ascii.io

ASCII.IO is the simplest way to record your terminal and share the recordings with your fellow geeks. Simply record and upload your terminal session with single command, and ASCII.IO will play it back in your browser.

This is the source code of ascii.io website and JS player. If you're looking for ascii.io terminal recorder go here: sickill/ascii.io-cli

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 your organization.

1. Install dependencies

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

• Ruby 1.9.3+ (Ruby 2.0.0-p247 is recommended)

• bundler gem
  gem install bundler

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

• libtsm
  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.

2. Get the source code

Clone git repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/sickill/ascii.io.git
$ cd ascii.io

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 thumbnail generation.

$ bundle exec sidekiq

Authors

• Marcin Kulik (sickill)
• Michał Wróbel (sparrovv)