Show HN: hubot-control - webapp for managing hubots

https://github.com/spajus/hubot-control

by spajus • 13 years ago

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A rails app for managing self-hosted hubot installations.

drnex• 13 years ago

Nice!

Is it relevant/secure for heroku hubots?

spajus5• 13 years ago

It was built for use within your company / personal server - there is no authentication mechanism, so you have to make sure that it cannot be accessed from outside without at least HTTP Basic Auth.

I haven't tried running it on Heroku, it would be insecure, and I guess Heroku infrastructure would forbid some of system calls hubot-control app is doing, like checking pids, killing processes.

spajus5• 13 years ago

Great news, michalmior nearly got it up and running on Heroku: https://github.com/spajus/hubot-control/pull/2

angersock4• 13 years ago

What license are you releasing this under?

spajus5• 13 years ago

Good question, never thought about licensing until it was needed. I'm thinking GPL v3.

angersock4• 13 years ago

Could you be talked into Apache or Modified BSD?

Comedy answer: WTFPL (though nobody likes that guy).

nickporter• 13 years ago

we need to go deeper

oulipo2• 13 years ago

This is awesome, but it should be easy to actually create a broader framework that allows one to control & monitor processes that run scripts on servers in general, & not just Hubot -- Hubot could be just an adapter for the more general tool, do you think this is feasible? :)

drewcoo• 13 years ago

The problem there is that every new service needs its own glue code. I know there are companies (that I'm not shilling for) that are trying to create something like "universal glue code" but I'm not so sure those proprietary solutions are the right way. That seems to be against "the Unix way".

I openly admit that I'm not smart enough. I've thought about it for a while and I'm flummoxed. What's a good way to make glue code easier?

oulipo2• 13 years ago

I think this is all about API & modularity, if you define a general API for your monitoring tool (eg. how should an adapter notify you when there is a new job, etc), you can then write an adapter for Hubot, and everyone that has its own solution can write an adapter for it & glue it to your code :)

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