gitolite-rugged

A Ruby interface to manage the Gitolite Git backend system, easy ;)

This gem is designed to provide a Ruby interface to the Gitolite Git backend system via libgit2/rugged gem.

It provides these functionalities :

• SSH Public Keys Management
• Repositories Management
• Gitolite Admin Repository Bootstrapping

Requirements

• Ruby 2.7 or 3.0+
• a working Gitolite installation

Installation

Install dependencies :

# On Debian/Ubuntu
root# apt-get install build-essential libssh2-1 libssh2-1-dev cmake libgpg-error-dev

# On Fedora/CentoS/RedHat
root# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
root# yum install libssh2 libssh2-devel cmake libgpg-error-devel

Then put this in your Gemfile :

gem 'gitolite-rugged', git: 'https://github.com/jbox-web/gitolite-rugged.git', tag: '1.5.0'

then bundle install.

Usage

Bootstrapping the gitolite-admin.git repository

You can have gitolite-rugged clone the repository for you on demand, however I would recommend cloning it manually. See it as a basic check that your gitolite installation was correctly set up.

In both cases, use the following code to create an instance of the manager:

settings = { :public_key => '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub', :private_key => '~/.ssh/id_rsa' }
admin = Gitolite::GitoliteAdmin.new('/home/myuser/gitolite-admin', settings)

For cloning and pushing to the gitolite-admin.git, you have to provide several options to GitoliteAdmin in the settings hash. The following keys are used.

Option	Default	Description
:private_key	empty (this field is mandatory)	Path to the file containing the private SSH key for :git_user
:public_key	empty (this field is mandatory)	Path to the file containing the public SSH key for :git_user
:git_user	git	The git user to SSH to
:hostname	localhost	Hostname for clone url
:author_name	gitolite-rugged gem	The git author name to commit with
:author_email	gitolite-rugged@localhost	The git author e-mail address to commit with
:commit_msg	Commited by the gitolite-rugged gem	The commit message to use when updating the repo
:config_dir	conf	Config directory within gitolite repository
:key_dir	keydir	Public key directory within gitolite repository
:config_file	gitolite.conf	Config file to parse (use only when you use the 'include' directive of gitolite)
:key_subdir	'' (i.e., directly in keydir)	Where to store gitolite-rugged known keys
:lock_file_path	gitolite-admin.git/.lock	location of the transaction lockfile

Managing Public Keys

To add a key, create a SSHKey object and use the add_key(key) method of GitoliteAdmin.

# From filesystem
key_from_file = SSHKey.from_file("/home/alice/.ssh/id_rsa.pub")

# From String, which requires us to add an owner manually
key_from_string = SSHKey.from_string('ssh-rsa AAAAB3N/* .... */JjZ5SgfIKab bob@localhost', 'bob')

admin.add_key(key_from_string)
admin.add_key(key_from_file)

Note that you can add a location using the syntax described in the Gitolite documentation.

To write out the changes to the keys to the filesystem and push them to gitolite, call admin.save_and_apply. You can also manually call admin.save to commit the changes locally, but not push them.

Managing Repositories

To add a new repository, we first create and configure it, and then add it to the memory representation of gitolite:

repo = Gitolite::Config::Repo.new('foobar')
repo.add_permission("RW+", "alice", "bob")

# Add the repo
admin.config.add_repo(repo)

To remove a repository called 'foobar', execute config.rm_repo('foobar').

Groups

As in the Gitolite Config you can define groups as an alias to repos or users.

# Creating a group
devs = Gitolite::Config::Group.new('developers')
devs.add_users("alice", "bob")

# Adding a group to config
admin.config.add_group(devs)

See also

You can checkout the no longer maintain previous version of this lib : jbox-gitolite (based on gitlab-grit).

Contribute

You can contribute to this plugin in many ways such as :

• Helping with documentation
• Contributing code (features or bugfixes)
• Reporting a bug
• Submitting translations