Open Sourcery

I’ve completed the zone templates in BIND DLZ on Rails, unless I missed something obvious. I’ll first complete all the missing specs before continuing with the standard zone management tools.

Changes over the last four days include:

• Prototip 2 test implementation, for DNS insight
• Getting the $TTL of zone templates to behave the same way as normal zones
• Fixed broken seed data
• Restructured views to be more RJS friendly, and easier to manipulate with RJS

Lessons learned so far:

• Flock interferes with prototype’s event listening, or maybe firebug in flock
• Getting tables and nested forms to be manipulated by JS is not a walk in the park
• UI design can actually show holes model design

Stay tuned for more changes coming this week, we have a hectic deadline to get this application production ready in a very short time.

I’m proud to announce the first push to Github of the BIND DLZ on Rails project. Its still pretty much a work in progress, but this is the first draft and opens the door for feedback by the community before the project has evolved too far.

Highlights so far

• Multiple roles (admins or domain owners)
• Zone & Record Templates
• Fairly good test coverage with RSpec
• Some documentation

For those who are curious, its built using:

• Rails 2.0.2
• Haml 2.0
• restful_authentication plugin (and acts_as_state_machine, role_requirement)
• will_paginate
• seed-fu
• rspec and rspec_on_rails

Installation

This might be a little sketchy, apologies in advance. I’ll work on a proper document as part of the source code.

Requirements

• Ruby 1.8.6
• Rubygems v 1.0 or later
• MySQL (other databases will work, although I haven’t tested them)
• Git

After installing the prerequisites, you need to create a database for the application to use. By default it expects “bind_dns_development” as the database name, you can however change config/database.yml to point to anywhere.

To get the database structure in place, with some seed data to play with, run these commands

$ rake db:schema:load
$ rake db:seed

The seed data will create a single user called “admin”, with the password “secret”.

To start a server, do this

$ ./script/server

This shows you the interface on port 3000.

Stay tuned

Please watch/fork the repo as appropriate, and file tickets on Lighthouse. As I’m typing this post I realize you much documentation is still lacking for non-Rails developers.

Thanks

Thanks to ISP in a Box for allowing us to build this project in company time and giving us the required infrastructure, support and human testing during the development, now and in the coming months.