Help understanding what and how you've done this

[MtnBiker]

If I get this, you've made a Rails app run as an Electron app.

How?

And can this then be converted to an app that would just run instead of needing yarn start?

[morochena]

Sure, in main.js:

rails-in-electron/main.js

Line 32 in dc810a7

const railsApp = require('child_process').spawn('rails', ['s'])

You can see that I'm starting a child process that runs the rails server.

rails-in-electron/main.js

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mainWindow.loadURL('http://localhost:3000')

And then here you can see that I'm loading that URL in the main window.

Packaging it would be more difficult - you would need to be able to run rails on the target system. It may make sense to use docker or even another web framework where you can package the web application as a single executable.