Pryrite is a command line tool that interactively runs executable blocks in a markdown file. One can think of pryrite as a console REPL/debugger for a markdown file. We drew inspiration from ruby's pry for the interface.

As developers, we come across plentiful documents that provide a prescriptive set of steps to do a task. Typically these include runbooks, onboarding/setup or trouble-shooting documents. Running commands from these documents involve: Reading the document in a browser followed by copy/pasting the commands in a console in order to run. We find this process cumbersome. Moreover, the output of the command(s) are never recorded, so you can never go back to a document and see if you had run a specific command, and what that result was.

Pryrite attempts to solve this by providing these features:

1. An interactive runner for markdown so that blocks marked as ```shell can be executed.
   • (Note: we plan to support more executable types in the near future).
2. The result of each executable block is stored so that it can be retrieved contextually.

The following video shows pryrite working with a markdown file.

• Try it out yourself

pryrite open https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1xyz/pryrite/main/_examples/hello-world.md

• MacOS

   brew tap 1xyz/pryrite
   brew install pryrite

• Linux (amd64)

   wget -O pryrite https://github.com/1xyz/pryrite/releases/latest/download/pryrite-linux-amd64 && chmod 755 pryrite

Latest released binaries are available here. This includes other architectures.

• Ubuntu

  Install docker on Ubuntu

   pryrite open https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1xyz/pryrite/main/_examples/install-docker-ubuntu.md

  Cleanup diskspace on Ubuntu

   pryrite open https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1xyz/pryrite/main/_examples/cleanup-diskspace-ubuntu.md

• MacOS

  Install and work with Redis

   pryrite open https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1xyz/pryrite/main/_examples/install-redis-osx.md