Joshua-Anderson/rbd

Develop locally, build remotely

RBD - Remote build tool

rbd is a tool for developing code on your laptop but building that code on your workstation.

When you run rbd make build, rbd:

• Copies the current directory from your laptop to a specified location on your workstation, using rsync over ssh.
• Runs the given command, make build, in this directory on your workstation, using ssh.
• Copies the directory back from your workstation to your laptop, using rsync over ssh.

⚠️ This tool is not very fancy, it's specifically designed to fit my use case and little more. ⚠️

Configuration:

rbd is configured by the file ~/.rbd/config.json

{
  "workers": [{
      "id": "ws",
      "host": "example.com",
      "user": "test",
      "port": 2222 // optional
  }],
  "mappings": [
    {
      "worker": "ws",
      "remote": "/remote/builder",
      "local": "/home/test/testprogram"
    },
  ]
}

You define a worker, which a ssh connection information to your remote build machine. You can then map a local directory to that remote directory. rbd will error if running in a non-mapped directory.