Add publicly accesible json api to query alaveteli and ruby version. Implements #834

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/app/controllers/general_controller.rb b/app/controllers/general_controller.rb
index a8bbc22ff..626c4ad87 100644
--- a/app/controllers/general_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/general_controller.rb
@@ -230,6 +230,14 @@ class GeneralController < ApplicationController
         render(:layout => false, :content_type => 'text/css')
     end
 
-
+    def version
+        respond_to do |format|
+            format.json { render :json => {
+                :alaveteli_git_commit => alaveteli_git_commit,
+                :alaveteli_version => ALAVETELI_VERSION,
+                :ruby_version => RUBY_VERSION
+            }}
+        end
+    end
 end
 
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 3512b4cd4..8d6704a9e 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
         general.advanced_search '/advancedsearch', :action => 'search_redirect', :advanced => true
 
         general.random_request '/random', :action => 'random_request'
+        general.version '/version.:format', :action => 'version'
     end
 
     map.with_options :controller => 'request' do |request|