Genghis

The single-file MongoDB admin app, by Justin Hileman.

There are more ways to run Genghis than you can shake a stick at

Standalone

If you installed Genghis as a Ruby gem, running Genghis standalone is easy:

$ genghisapp

Now that it's running, you can use genghisapp --kill to stop it.

Windows users: Due to this bug Genghis always runs in foreground mode.

If you didn't go the gem route, you can still run genghis.rb standalone:

$ ruby genghis.rb

genghis.php can also be run as a PHP 5.4 CLI SAPI standalone server:

$ php -S localhost:8000 genghis.php

In your LAMP stack

Simply drop genghis.php in a web-accessible directory on a LAMP server. Don't forget .htaccess for pretty URLs!

With nginx and PHP-fpm (and friends)

You'll need some fancy config action, but it's fairly straightforward.

In an existing Rack app

For a super basic Rack config, use a config.ru file like this:

require 'genghis'

run Genghis::Server

If you want to load Genghis on a subpath, possibly alongside other apps, it's easy to do with Rack's URLMap:

require 'genghis'

run Rack::URLMap.new \
  '/'        => Your::App.new,
  '/genghis' => Genghis::Server.new

With Rails 3

You can even mount Genghis on a subpath in your existing Rails 3 app by adding require 'genghis' to the top of your routes file (or in an initializer) and then adding this to routes.rb:

mount Genghis::Server.new, :at => '/genghis'

Genghis Dependencies

PHP

You will need the PECL MongoDB driver.

Ruby

The easiest way to install Genghis and all dependencies is via RubyGems:

$ gem install genghisapp

Or you could check out a local copy of the Git repo and install dependencies via Bundler:

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install

Configuration

Check the Genghis wiki for additional configuration information.

License

• Copyright 2011 Justin Hileman
• Distributed under the MIT License

Genghis uses a number of amazing open source libraries, distributed under the following licenses

• Backbone.js — MIT License
• CodeMirror — MIT-style License
• Esprima — "Simplified" BSD License (2-clause)
• Hogan.js — Apache License v2.0
• hoverIntent — MIT or GPLv2 License
• jQuery — MIT License
• KEYS.css — MIT License
• Modernizr — MIT or BSD (3-clause) License
• Mousetrap — Apache License v2.0
• TableSorter — MIT or GPLv2 License
• Twitter Bootstrap — Apache License v2.0
• Underscore.js — MIT License