Killswitch is a clever control panel built by Mirego that allows mobile developers to apply
runtime version-specific behaviors to their iOS or Android application.

Every runtime dependencies are defined in the .tool-versions file. These external dependencies are also required:

• PostgreSQL (~> 10.0)

All required environment variables are documented in .env.dev.

When running rails, rake or make commands, it is important that these variables are present in the environment. There are several ways to achieve this. Using nv is recommended since it works out of the box with .env.* files.

1. Create both .env.dev.local and .env.test.local from empty values in .env.dev and .env.test
2. Install Ruby and NPM dependencies with make dependencies
3. Generate values for mandatory secrets in .env.dev with rake secret

Then, with variables from .env.dev and .env.dev.local present in the environment:

4. Create and migrate the database with rake db:setup
5. Start the Rails server with rails s

You can use the sample_data:create Rake task to create an organization, an admin user and a few applications.

$ [email protected] KILLSWITCH_SAMPLE_DATA_PASSWORD=p@ssw0rd rake sample_data:create

A Makefile is present at the root and expose common tasks. The list of these commands is available with make help.

Tests can be ran with make test.

Several linting and formatting tools can be ran to ensure coding style consistency:

• make lint ensures code follows our guidelines and best practices
• make format formats files using Prettier

The .github/workflows/ci.yaml workflow ensures that the codebase is in good shape on each pull request and branch push.

GET /killswitch

Version numbers supported by Killswitch must match the following regular expression:

/^\d+(\.\d+)?(\.\d+)?(\.\w+)?$/

Here are some valid and invalid version number examples:

{
  "action": "ok",
  "buttons": []
}

{
  "action": "alert",
  "message": "SUP?",
  "buttons": [
    {
      "type": "cancel",
      "label": "Nothing"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "action": "kill",
  "message": "The app will be killed now. Please upgrade to the latest version.",
  "buttons": [
    {
      "type": "url",
      "label": "Upgrade",
      "url": "itms://foo"
    },
    {
      "type": "cancel",
      "label": "I don’t want to."
    }
  ]
}

The project exposes a GET /ping route that sends an HTTP 200 OK response as soon as the server is ready to accept requests. The response also contains the project version for debugging purpose.

The project exposes a GET /health route that contains checks to make sure the application and its external dependencies are healthy.

A Docker image can be created with make build and pushed to a registry with make push.

Official Docker images can be pulled from GitHub Container registry. For example, to get the latest main image:

$ docker pull ghcr.io/mirego/killswitch:latest

Killswitch is © 2013-2025 Mirego and may be freely distributed under the New BSD license. See the LICENSE.md file.

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