Working with Serpico

Serpico, or the SimplE RePort wrIting and COllaboration tool, is a tool that is developed in Ruby and is used to speed up the process of report writing. It's open source, platform-independent, and available on GitHub. In this section, we will go through the basic installation and usage of Serpico.

Installation and setup

For 64-bit Linux systems, installation is easy – we just download and install the file from the releases section of the tool, at https://github.com/SerpicoProject/Serpico/releases.

Since Serpico has a Docker image, we will use it for our use case.

First, we need to set up a database and username and password. To do this, run the following command:

ruby first_time.rb

The following...