Name

my_help

Summary

This gem makes and supplies user specific helps, emulating CUI(CLI) help usage.

Target

A very novice of learning some specific operation, such as CUI, shell, or emacs, has difficulty in remembering commands and grammers. If he has a key, he can easily remember all, but no key brings nothing. Especially a non-English-native has strong difficulty on the key rememebering. The problems are,

  • man(ual) is English
  • man is heavily documented
  • On web, search the same key word,
  • and read the same URI repeatedly
  • memo goes away somewhere...

Specs

This gem aims to supply own help by gem environment. Specs are,

  • user makes his own help
  • supplies a template
    • same format, looks, operation, and hierarchy
  • easily see, read
  • supplies editing and install commands.

Wiki targets the whole engineer, my_help target the specific person. Half of the wiki aim should be covered by my_help. Making own manual is one of the best practices for remembering operations. Memo applications are good, if you remember the key word. my_help supplies the key for remembering the word.

Usage

Install

Different from the gem standard, fork and clone from Github.

github.com:daddygongon/my_help.git

The following operations are performed under 'bundle'. The main reason of this disturbance is due the developer not to know the last command of 'rake install:local' from gem environment.
But the second reason is the on-going project to collect and supply the good helps for novices. We are planning to achieve it by using 'pull request' of Github.

Supplied commands are

bob%  bundle exec exe/my_help
Usage: my_help [options]
    -v, --version                    show program Version.
    -l, --list

At first, see the list of supplied helps by the option of -l.

bob%  bundle exec exe/my_help -l
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/my_help-0.2.1/lib/daddygongon"
["-l"]
Specific help file:
  emacs_help
  test_help

emacs_help, e_h, test_help, t_h are ready to use. Play them by a command such as 'bundle exec exe/e_h'.

Make own help

The next step is making own help.
For this, -i NAME supplies new NAME help.

bob%  bundle exec exe/my_help -i new_help
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/my_help-0.2.1/lib/daddygongon"
["-i", "new_help"]
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/my_help-0.2.1/lib/daddygongon/new_help"
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/my_help-0.2.1/lib/my_help/template_help"
cp /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/my_help-0.2.1/lib/my_help/template_help 
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/my_help-0.2.1/lib/daddygongon/new_help

it makes get ready the template of new_help in daddygongon dir. Edit it by -e new_help. Then -m make new_help and n_h in exe directory.

Activate own help

For the last step, at the my_help directory, put the commands in as follows:

 git add -A
 git commit -m 'add new help'
 rake install:local

That's it. You can use the new_help or short command of n_h on CUI. If not, restart the terminal to load the bin path.