I can give you my use case to help a bit with next steps! I’ve added a discourse endpoint to the “helpme” client → HelpMe | HelpMe - a command line tool for helping you out. and Journal of Open Source Software: HelpMe Command Line Helper Utility so that users can ask for help from the command line w…

I see, I am open to a PR here that makes your use case somewhat easier: helpme discourse somesite.com You have no authentication token to somesite.com to create one visit: http://somesite.com/api_key/new?application_name=helpme&public_key=ABCD&nonce=NONCE&client_id=client_id&auth_redirect... Then…

Ah, fantastic! Let me start to look over the development docs and I’ll see what I can do. The example usage is spot on, even better than the old school “log in and generate” that I had in mind!

Do you have any tips/ examples/ templates that could help me? I have no idea what I’m doing, the most I can tell is that I might add @headless = params[:headless] but then I don’t actually know what that’s doing… :confused: I think I would want to: add the parameter headless, with option to be emp…

heyo! My awesome collaborator is helping me out, so hopefully we can put our heads together and have a PR, maybe sometime over the weekend? I’ll ping you here if we run into trouble! His main language is Ruby, and he’s awesome, so I think for now we’re good! (and having fun too!) ---- edited! hey @…

Easiest way to get started is [image] Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides Developing using Docker Since Discourse runs in Docker, you should be able to run Discourse directly from your source directory using a Discourse development …

hey @sam ! This is fine if I just want to run the released discourse, but if I want to run a (development) version, from my Github repository, well I’ve been parsing through the dockerfiles this morning and it’s a nightmare - everything is a custom tool or command that has so many layers to reverse e…

You do not want to run your own version of Discourse from your own github repo. I promise. For many of the reasons that you have pointed out. You want to develop a plugin. Maybe you should see Beginners Guide to Install Discourse for Development using Docker and Beginner's Guide to Creating Discours…

haha yes, that describes all my frustrations quite well. So - an update to the controller script that @sam pointed out here: discourse/app/controllers/user_api_keys_controller.rb at 06d1b19ca2d8994d444ebfa3bb17634a4ae5ea7b · discourse/discourse · GitHub You are saying this should be done by way …

The only case that it makes sense to change the codebase rather than make changes in a plugin is if your change will be accepted in core. Otherwise, you’ll have to merge Discourse changes into your own, everyone who has done so was very sorry and spent lots of time and money undoing those changes. Y…

Correct - that is my use case. I am testing code that will be a PR to core, and I’d like to have a development server to test before doing a PR. I could PR blindly but that is not something I have ever done, it seems like bad practice.

Adding command line tools support for user api keys

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sam (Sam Saffron) December 8, 2018, 12:46am 6

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Adding command line tools support for user api keys

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