drbservice

= drbservice

• https://bitbucket.org/ged/drbservice

== Description

DRbService is a framework we use at LAIKA for creating authenticated SSL-encrypted DRb services that provide access to privileged operations without the need to give shell access to everyone.

There are a few examples in the examples/ directory of the gem, which are stripped-down versions of the services we actually use.

The current implementation is kind of a hack, but I intend to eventually finish a DRb protocol that does the same thing in a more elegant, less-hackish way, as well as a tool that can generate a new service along with support files for one of several different runtime environments.

If you're curious, see the drb/authsslprotocol.rb file for the protocol. This will replace the current method-hiding code in drbservice.rb, but existing services should be able to switch over quite easily. Or that's the intention.

== Installation

gem install drbservice

== Contributing

You can check out the current development source with Mercurial via its {Bitbucket project}[https://bitbucket.org/ged/drbservice]. Or if you prefer Git, via {its Github mirror}[https://github.com/ged/drbservice].

After checking out the source, run:

$ rake newb

This task will install any missing dependencies, run the tests/specs, and generate the API documentation.

== License

Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, Michael Granger All rights reserved.

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