[asterisk-users] Urgent help = RUBY & AGI

[Steve Edwards]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> I’m a PERL weenie, so I can “shell check” my agi’s by going to 
> /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin and doing
> 
> ./cityweather.agi 777702107 Birmingham AL 35244 en
> 
> And getting back a STDOUT output that simulates what I should get from 
> the CLI output.

You can go a step further and feed the AGI environment and responses to 
your AGI requests.

Create a file like:

agi_accountcode:
agi_callerid: 1234567890
agi_calleridname: sedwards
.
.
.
agi_request: cityweather.agi
agi_type: SIP
agi_uniqueid: 1195070681.28

200 result=1 (localhost)
200 result=1 (dbuser)
200 result=1 (dbpass)

This would feed the AGI environment* and database credentials (via channel 
variables) to your AGI when executed like:

 	./cityweather.agi 777702107 Birmingham AL 35244 en <agi-env-n-resp

As long as you don't need to directly interact with a "live" Asterisk 
instance (like the OP), you can get a lot of debugging done "offline."

*) At least 1 of the published AGI libraries assumes the environment is 
presented in a specific order. Personally, I prefer to present the 
environment in alphabetic order and coded my library to parse it 
correctly.

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Thanks in advance,
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