Released v0.0.9

- Added require statements for rubygems to ensure the system will work on ruby 1.8.7
- Slightly updated README, COPYING and gemspec content
- Executing the usefuldb script with no parameters now displays usage information.

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 usefuldb gem CHANGELOG
 
+## Version 0.0.9
+- Added require statements for rubygems to ensure the system will work on ruby 1.8.7
+- Slightly updated README, COPYING and gemspec content
+- Executing the usefuldb script with no parameters now displays usage information.
+
 ## Version 0.0.8
 - Fixed issue introduced in 0.0.7 with deleting elements 
 - Added logging to many parts of the UsefulDB system to aid debugging, and provide support for verbose mode 

COPYING

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-usefuldb - simple commands and or urls database for storage of useful information.
+usefuldb - simple database for storage of useful commands and or urls.
 
 usefuldb is released under the creative commons attribution-sharealike 3.0 unported (cc by-sa 3.0) licence.
 for more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

README → README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Readme - v0.0.8
+## Readme - v0.0.9
 
 ### Install
 To run the unit tests use the following rake target
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ If you cloned the repository, or downloaded this gem as an archive, you can inst
 
 This gem is also stored on rubygems.org and can be installed with the following command:
 gem install usefuldb
+
+### Usage
+To run the system, simply call the _usefuldb_ script at the commandline for instructions

Rakefile

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'bundler'
 Bundler::GemHelper.install_tasks
 

bin/usefuldb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
 # Require statements
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'usefuldb'
 require 'optparse'
 require 'logger'
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ log.level = Logger::WARN
 
 options = {}
 optparse = nil
+welcome = nil
 
 # Setup the system for use
 UsefulDB.setup(log)
@@ -38,6 +40,9 @@ begin
 UsefulDB - a simple command and URL database (#{UsefulDB::Version})
 
    Useage:  usefuldb <searchtag1> <searchtag2> .. <searchtagN>
+            usefuldb -a
+            usefuldb -d
+            usefuldb -l
 
 WELCOME
 
@@ -61,15 +66,18 @@ WELCOME
       options[:v] = arg
     end
 
+    welcome = opts
+
     opts.on('-h', '--help', "Print out this message") do |arg|
       log.debug "help parameter passed"
       puts opts
       exit
     end
-    
+
   end.parse!
 rescue OptionParser::InvalidOption => e
-  puts e.message + "\n\nUseage: usefuldb -h or --help for help using the system"
+  puts "[" + e.message + "} Please see the following for usage instructions: \n"
+  puts welcome
   log.fatal e.message
   exit()
 end
@@ -83,7 +91,7 @@ if options.empty?
   log.debug "Checking if ARGV is empty"
   if ARGV.empty?
     log.debug "No parameters of any kind were passed, exiting"
-    puts "Useage: usefuldb -h or --help for help using the system"
+    puts welcome
     exit()
   else
     log.debug "At least one non flag parameter was passed, launching the search system"

lib/usefuldb.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'usefuldb/settings'
 require 'usefuldb/utilities'
 require 'usefuldb/exceptions'

lib/usefuldb/exceptions.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'usefuldb'
 
 module UsefulDB

lib/usefuldb/gui.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'usefuldb/utilities'
 
 module UsefulDB

lib/usefuldb/settings.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'yaml'
 
 module UsefulDB

lib/usefuldb/utilities.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'usefuldb/exceptions'
 require 'logger'
 

lib/usefuldb/version.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'usefuldb'
 
 module UsefulDB
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ class << self
 
       MAJOR = 0 unless defined? MAJOR
       MINOR = 0 unless defined? MINOR
-      PATCH = 8 unless defined? PATCH
+      PATCH = 9 unless defined? PATCH
 
       def to_s
         [MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH].compact.join('.')

test/main_test.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'test/unit'
 require 'rack/test'
 require 'fileutils'

usefuldb.gemspec

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
 #$:.push File.expand_path("../lib", __FILE__)
-require File.expand_path('../lib/usefuldb/version', __FILE__)
+require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 
 
+
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name        = 'usefuldb'
-  s.version     = UsefulDB::Version
+  s.version     = '0.0.9'
   s.date        = '2012-08-01'
-  s.summary     = "A simple commands and URLs database for storage of useful information"
-  s.description = "usefuldb is a simple database which is designed to store useful commands and URLs"
+  s.summary     = "usefuldb - simple database for storage of useful commands and or urls."
+  s.description = "Accessible through a commandline script, UsefulDB allows the user to store information about a useful command or useful url"
   s.authors     = ["David Kirwan"]
   s.email       = ['00346128@mail.wit.ie']
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.executables << 'usefuldb'
   s.post_install_message = <<-INSTALL
   
-usefuldb - simple commands and or urls database for storage of useful information.
+usefuldb - simple database for storage of useful commands and or urls.
 
 usefuldb is released under the creative commons attribution-sharealike 3.0 unported (cc by-sa 3.0) licence.
 for more information see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/