See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238793

I would like to see a production deployment that did not pull in all the development libraries and optimized for speed. I made a feeble attempt with

bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:seed RAILS_ENV=production
bin/rails server --environment=production

but that ended with the main website at http://localhost:3000 not fully loading graphics and CSS.

http://showterm.io/e3705f06a682850e3e2bb#stop

https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/315733999089774592

please document the docker docs. in the Readme

mysql is much more popular than postgres for shared hosts, and is kind of the standard. sqlite works well on embedded devices + mobile. I would be very happy with support for either but cmon posgres.. let the flame war begin :)

Installing Showterm through "curl showterm.io/showterm > ~/bin/showterm" and trying to record a program with "showterm program" doesn't work. It runs the program, then starts recording the bash. Example: http://showterm.io/ea5ff6768f85fb9e0c013

Not knowing much about CSS, I am trying to figure out how I can increase the font size of showterm. I am going to be embedding showterm in my presentation and I need to make sure the code is readable to folks in the back. Should I be looking in app/assets/stylesheets? What bits should I try toggling?

bin/rake test:all:db returns:

   (228.5ms)  DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS "showterm_test"
   (794.2ms)  CREATE DATABASE "showterm_test" ENCODING = 'utf8'
   (121.2ms)  CREATE TABLE "scripts" ("id" serial primary key, "slug" character varying(255), "scriptfile" text, "timingfile" text, "ip_address" character varying(255), "created_at" timestamp NOT NULL, "updated_at" timestamp NOT NULL, "cols" integer DEFAULT 80, "lines" integer, "secret" text) 
   (57.6ms)  CREATE INDEX "index_scripts_on_slug" ON "scripts" ("slug")
   (8.2ms)  CREATE TABLE "schema_migrations" ("version" character varying(255) NOT NULL) 
   (53.6ms)  CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "unique_schema_migrations" ON "schema_migrations" ("version")
   (1.2ms)  SELECT version FROM "schema_migrations"
   (5.9ms)  INSERT INTO "schema_migrations" (version) VALUES ('20131111202216')
   (7.9ms)  INSERT INTO "schema_migrations" (version) VALUES ('20121008062224')
   (7.6ms)  INSERT INTO "schema_migrations" (version) VALUES ('20130119105342')
   (8.3ms)  INSERT INTO "schema_migrations" (version) VALUES ('20121008050618')
   (7.9ms)  INSERT INTO "schema_migrations" (version) VALUES ('20121008063803')
rake aborted!
cannot load such file -- rails/performance_test_help
/home/renaud/github/showterm.io/test/performance/browsing_test.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => test:all:db => test:all
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
Run options: --seed 64672

# Running tests:



Finished tests in 0.002076s, 0.0000 tests/s, 0.0000 assertions/s.

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

OK, it complains about rails/performance_test_help.

There appears to be an update problem when using 256 colors and unicode to draw bars (not sure which of the two causes the problem). I am not sure whether this is at the server or client side.
Only part of the screen is drawn on every refresh,
For example see here:
http://showterm.io/ed75cf9894b5eeec9cf36

Of the top of my mind:

• Spacebar for play/pause
• [ for slowing playback speed, ] for increasing it
• arrow keys for seek

I recoreded a few bash commands:

[wojdyr@dt tests]$ showterm bash
showterm recording. (Exit shell when done.)
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ echo 123
123
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ echo abc
abc
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ echo 1 2 3
1 2 3
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ exit
showterm recording finished.
Uploading...
http://showterm.io/1f39d968a3447c264913c
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ 

and when go to the URL above I see:

123                                                                             
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ echo abc                                                     
abc                                                                             
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ echo 1 2 3                                                   
1 2 3                                                                           
[wojdyr@dt tests]$ exit

Additionally, command prompts are being typed, and some slowly typed text is shown instantly.
Tried both shell and ruby uploader - the same.

It would be nice to be able to delete sessions

Showterm.io is great for tutorials, but if you embed several screencasts in one page then the result is quite messy [1,2].
I think it would be great if one could disable auto play and let the user manually play a screencast.

[1] https://googledrive.com/host/0B9lMEsFXwv0ZLVh5dkRfdmw1UnM/
[2] http://adit.io/posts/2013-08-16-five-useful-git-tips.html

I've been staring at a showterm for 5 seconds and then realised that the
it has already finished. The cursor confused me.

I forked and deployed to heroku.
Images are not loading:

what should I do to get the images to show?

This may/may not be possible to track, not sure.

Not sure if its client or server side either.

But it would be helpful if you could render a cursor of some description, especially if a user is editing input in real time, because otherwise all you'll see is characters randomly mutating, and you'll lack the visual cue to know where to expect to see a mutation before it happens.

https://twitter.com/rjbs/status/404971695691563008

Example demonstrating the confusion: http://showterm.io/ab072f78742aaa469c4c7#fast

I couldn't find the code for the shell client in either the showterm or showterm.io repos, so I've put it here: https://gist.github.com/asharpe/768d963feed9a0409e11

Right now I can pause by putting the slider somewhere. But resume is completely broken. After paused, if I click on slow or fast, the playback starts from the same location in the html, but it prints text from the start.

I love this tool, and am planning to use it for all kinds of demos, training, and process documentation. But, I need to be able to run it on local machines.

Ideally, I could have it installed on the notebooks of many field staff (mostly linux), where the sessions could be captured and reviewed locally. After review, sessions could be uploaded to either a company server or the showterm.io site.

Architecturally I see this as pretty simple:

1. The local machine runs it's own private server, that let's the user locally review the sessions (http://localhost:3000/).
2. For any given session, the user can choose to upload it to an alternate network connected server.

Command wise, it could look like this:
showterm --list
# shows a listing of sessions on $SHOWTERM_SERVER

showterm --name "New Name" http://localhost:3000/9d4f95fade1c52ad86837
# adds "New Name" as an attribute of 9d4f95fade1c52ad86837 that appears in the --list

showterm --copy http://localhost:3000/9d4f95fade1c52ad86837 --server http://my.corp:3000/
# copies the session from up to --server

Lastly, having a simple script to setup the local instance. Ideally using something like sqlite with full setup by the script, and no expectation for conflict with other apps on the system.

Thanks for creating this great tool! Keep it up. :-)

I am trying to ditch Rails, and put showterm player in a Sinatra app along with old script linux command (not the *improved version in showterm).

What is a good alternative for the raw_json method in Standard Library or a standalone gem other than active_support which is what raw_json is using?

https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm.io/blob/master/app/helpers/scripts_helper.rb#L3-L14

Allowing slack embed would be great!
=> https://api.slack.com/robots

in https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm.io/blob/master/app/views/scripts/view.html#L6

// FIXME... just using 'j' leaves everything HTML escaped too

what does it exactly refer to?

When I drag the progress slider or click "stop", the playback can't be resumed, not even by clicking "slow" or "fast" again. It should probably start playing again if it was playing before dragging the slider. And if the "stop" button can't toggle between stop and play, at least the slow and fast buttons should resume playback.

Add support here to handle private shares in a useful way.

For those of us who would like to share recordings internally within our company (can't upload externally), we could run our own copy of showterm.io, but this is cumbersome and requires running special-purpose server code. It would be great if instead showterm could output a static file bundle that can then simply be tossed onto any old web server for sharing.

Thanks!

The /assets/name.png works on my local setup. Can you check what's different on production?