Commit and push a Git repository using Rails [duplicate]

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I'm building an application in Ruby on Rails 4 to handle git repositories, kind of like GitHub. One of the features is an in-app text editor with the option to commit your current changes. This is the part where I'm stuck. I need to use Rails to somehow get the changes, commit them, then push them to the remote.

The only thing I've thought of is using a Bash script to do this. The script would just be:

git add -A
git commit -m "Message that I get from user"
git push origin branch_name

The message and branch name would be variables that I get from the user.

For some reason, I don't think this would actually work.

Is it possible to use a Bash script to commit and push a Git repository with Rails? Is there a better, working method to do this?

github.com/schacon/ruby-git Remember, whatever you want to do, someone's probably already written a gem for it. — Michael Hampton
– Michael Hampton, Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 22:26
It is a duplicate, but the answer here is more thorough, so even though the other one is older, I'd be tempted to close it in favour of this. — Taryn East
– Taryn East, Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 0:47
@MichaelHampton - can you make your comment an actual answer? I can't vote to close the older question until this one has an upvoted answer :) — Taryn East
– Taryn East, Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 0:48
@TarynEast I think you have that backwards. I posted an answer. :) — Michael Hampton
– Michael Hampton, Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 0:54

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:23:05Z

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Most languages will let you execute command line expressions and capture the output. This might be lighter weight than installing a gem for every command you might want to run.

[1] Running command line commands within Ruby script

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:23

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