Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Manager

Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by SalGnt on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:17AM (#12397689)

I created this snippet manager because I never found a similar one around the internet. This is my first experience with Rails, what I want with this project is to learn more about this framework. Feel free to give me your feedback, thanks!

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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by stephenr on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:37AM (#12397806)

I notice you have "versioning" on your todo list.

I would personally implement that similar to how GitHub handles Gists: make each snippet a DVCS repo with 1 or more files in it.

That provides both the versioning functionality, and opens up the possibility for client-side editing using a well-known model (clone repo, make changes, commit, push).

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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by SalGnt on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:06AM (#12397971)

I don't know if Rails allows to do this, but I'll try, thanks.

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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:21PM (#12400346)

Well, seeing how GitHub does it...

https://rubygems.org/gems/git/

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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by SalGnt on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:37PM (#12400430)

Awesome!

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Re:Show HN: Codervault – Open-Source, Self-Hosted Snippet Ma... by mordocai on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @01:45PM (#12400101)

It definitely can, though it won't be as easy as just storing text blobs in the database like is the default rails way.

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