Nice!
Could you provide the database content using JSON REST API? We could then have
this as a part of Help Browser.
Cheers,
Juraj
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Juraj Kubelka
> El 14-04-2017, a las 09:30, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
> Part of my Discord bot as a goal was to add the ability to create database
> entries so that people can quickly find documentation.
>
> It was quite a challenge for me because I had to learn how heroku works,
> PostgreSQL and all the other things but I did it!!!
>
> In any discord channel you have now 3 commands !doc , !docadd , !docremove
>
> 1) !doc <search_term>
> search for a term in the documentation database
> eg. !doc pharo
>
> 2) !docadd <search_term> <content> <tags> <links>
> add a new entry to the documentation database
> eg. !docadd "pharo" "Pharo is a modern implementation of Smalltalk"
> "{'smalltalk','live coding','language'}" "{'squeak','IDE'}"
>
> 3)!docremove <search_term>
> remove a term from database
> eg. !docremove pharo
>
> tags , is for more complex searches in the future, links for sending users to
> relevant documentation
>
> I am also planning to give access to pharo users to the database from inside
> the pharo image, if its easy enough to use PostgreSQL from inside Pharo.
> Currently the bot is fully coded in python.
>
> The goal is not to create a full documentation but rather quick help tips for
> fast pointing to the right direction.
>
> This is also an invite to experience pharo devs and newcomers to start adding
> to this database.
>
> The database is PostgreSQL , one of the most populars, I have nothing against
> MongoDB , its just that it works better with heroku where I host the
> database. But if in the future find a way to do it for free I can move to
> MongoDB, but no promises.
>
> Anyway this was an excuse for me to learn database programming that I had
> abandoned 25 years ago (DBASE).
>
> So have fun with this :)
