DirectAdmin Rails Plugin (by Josh Delsman)¶ ↑

The DirectAdmin Rails plugin provides you with a communication class for interfacing directly with your DirectAdmin Web Control Panel.

NOTE: I would recommend that until DA decides to move to an XML- based system, that you only use the commands which start with “CMD_API”, most of which are updated here:

• Compatible DirectAdmin API Commands

• DirectAdmin API

Installation¶ ↑

Installation is simple:

script/plugin install git://github.com/voxxit/directadmin-rails-plugin.git

Example Usage¶ ↑

First, you must initialise a DirectAdmin::Base object to use. This requires the DirectAdmin hostname, port, username and password, as well as a failure email for commands:

@da = DirectAdmin::Base.new(
  :username       => "admin",
  :password       => "password",
  :host           => "http://host.com:2222/",
  :port           => "2222",
  :failure_email  => "admin@email.com"
)

If the API command requires POST and additional form data, such as username or password, you’ll need to insert some form data. Here is an example from the CMD_API_ACCOUNT_USER command:

form_data = {
  :action    => 'create',
  :add       => 'Submit',
  :username  => 'sampleuser',
  :email     => 'email@address.com',
  :passwd    => 'sample_Password',
  :passwd2   => 'sample_Password',
  :domain    => 'sample.com',
  :package   => 'packagename',
  :ip        => '127.0.0.1',
  :notify    => 'yes'
}

If the API command requires GET (like CMD_API_SHOW_USER_DOMAINS does), you’ll need to add the option :method => ‘get’ to your call and whatever GET parameters are required.

Now, you can simply make the call! You will need to invoke the “do” method, which will communicate with the server, perform the function, and then report back with a URL encoded array/string:

*Example with POST-enabled API call:*

@show_users = @da.do(
  :command => "CMD_API_SHOW_USERS"
)

*Example with GET-enabled API call:*

@show_user_domains = @da.do(
  :command => "CMD_API_SHOW_USER_DOMAINS", 
  :method => 'get',
  :user => user
)

You can optionally elect to parse the data into a usable and pretty handy hash, too:

@hash = @da.parse(@show_users.body)

Bugs/Issues¶ ↑

Please report all issues using the GitHub issue tracker at:

github.com/voxxit/directadmin-rails-plugin/issues

Credit¶ ↑

Author: Josh Delsman (voxxit.github.com)

License¶ ↑

See the MIT-LICENSE file.