A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

How to install ruby, rake, rubygems

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/

For ruby, tried:
  • https://rvm.io/ - wouldn't work on my Suse setup
  • https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#readme - worked on Suse. Promising, I like.
    • https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build#readme - doesn't work


For rubygems, tried:
  • https://rubygems.org/pages/download - worked

For rake:

  • It comes with ruby


Now learn Ruby:
https://github.com/neo/ruby_koans


Search engines

List:

  • HP Autonomy IDOL
  • Google search appliance
  • Solr / Lucene
  • Atlassian Jira/Wiki search
  • Knowledge bases (untested):
    • http://www.helpgizmo.com/
    • https://www.zendesk.com/knowledge-base
    • http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/
    • http://www.spiceworks.com/free-it-knowledge-base-software/

Which data file format?

List:

  • CSV
  • TSV
  • INI
  • XML
  • YAML
  • JSON
  • RDB
  • custom