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Posted on Friday July 22, 2022
I pushed an update to MoonGem earlier. It now supports running one-off scripts absent of any kind of networking or server logic.
moongem --script=hello.lua
This command will run the contents of `hello.lua` inside MoonGem's scripting environment. Any content rendered by this script will be written to stdout.
This mode of execution also supports specifying a URI to provide to the script in order to simulate a real-world gemini request.
moongem -s test-input.lua gemini://panda-roux.dev/input.gmi?watermelon
The existing server mode behavior remains unchanged.
I added this feature in order to simplify testing. Previously if I wanted to test a dynamic page, I'd have to generate a cert, start MoonGem on a background process, call a command-line client like gmni, look at the results, and kill the server. Now I can test scripts with a single command, no other steps required.
In addition to facilitating testing, being able to generate a dynamic gemtext doc from the command-line could be used for certain server-side use cases.
I have added a Dockerfile for containerization purposes, and pushed a pre-built image to Docker Hub. I'll work on setting up a compose file sometime soon.
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