I needed something to search codebase with and after trying to do
sudo gem install rak
and rak installed like that is a little flaky. Probably something missing but I didn’t want to spend time researching, so ack to the rescue.
ack is perl utility to search codebase.
In ubuntu install is super simple.
sudo apt-get install ack-grep
however on OSX things usually require more work. Here is how to install ack on OSX that worked for me (Snow Leopard)
download it: curl http://betterthangrep.com/ack-standalone > ~/ack
make it executable: chmod 0755 ack
move it to bin so it would be in path: sudo mv ack /usr/local/bin/
enjoy.
more info at http://betterthangrep.com/
