Purpose of open: true "server URL in browser"?

[r3cgm]

First let me say I'm continuing to find madness the absolute perfect solution for what I needed. Just a few more tweaks and I'll be ready to put this on autopilot.

I have a question regarding the option in .madness.yml

# open the server URL in the browser
open: true

What does this do? I tried enabling and disabling and can't see what the difference is. Thanks for any clarification.

[DannyBen]

The open config key (and --open CLI argument) are intended to launch the browser when running the server.

I was introduced in #88, and it calls this function:

madness/lib/madness/command_line.rb

Lines 132 to 137 in a9457e1

	def open_browser
	browser = Browser.new config.bind, config.port
	browser.open do |error|
	say "!txtred!#{error}" if error
	end
	end

which then calls this

madness/lib/madness/browser.rb

Lines 58 to 60 in a9457e1

	def open_command
	@open_command ||= [OS.open_file_command, server_url]
	end

which calls the OS#open_file_command from the external OS gem:

If you are in a headless linux, it will probably do nothing, but if you are on mac, or a full headed linux, it should launch the browser.

If it should work in your case and it doesn't, it is a bug (which I might have difficulty solving since I am running on a headless linux).

[r3cgm]

Running a headless linux box here too so probably not something I'd tend to use but good to know it is there. Thanks for the clarification!

[DannyBen]

Sure thing.