Gollum Personal Wiki on Openshift

My tabs are begging me to be closed. Even Firefox asks the same.

I have decided that I need to store some of that information somewhere, and that I couldn't just rely on Bookmarks mechanism since I haven't read properly all of those pages and I wouldn't be able to search for the info I would need.


So I have decided I needed a personal wiki.

I wanted something that I could easily push on the web, on Openshift ideally.


I've found out this post:

http://www.highlevelbits.com/2011/11/my-precious-wiki.html


That suggest the usage of Gollum, a personal Wiki based on Sinatra/Rails.

You do not need to know anything about the underlying technology to deploy and use it.

When you want to use it offline, you just have to un

gollum

and the command will execute an in memory webserver that will host locally your wiki. You can start to use it, to read and write what you need and once in a while you just have to push to Openshift git repository to publish all your work online.

The tutorial is a little outdated but it's easy to understand what to change to obtain the result.

If you need any help just drop a line ;)

Note:

Fedora needs  python-pygments and python-develfor the code syntax features

Open Shift on Feodra 17

I have just moved from RHEL 6 to Fedora 17. Not completely seamless but probably I had part in the mess. Anyway it's been quite simple and still feeling more a Windows user than a Linux one, seeing that to restore my previous programs and configurations it is just a matter of moving files, like I used to do on Windows choosing Portable Application make me feel happy (and save a lot of time)

I decided I needed to blog here since I have found a problem with Red Hat Open Shift installation procedure.

If you follow the official steps on Open Shift site you'll receive a 404 error, very disappointing.

But the bug has already been tracked:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826808 

Anyway it seems that Fedora already includes the right packages, they are just with a slightly different name:

yum search rhc

#will lead you to: 

yum install rubygem-rhc

that will provide you the rhc command!