Looking at my tasks, the first order of business is to get connected to our LDAP server through a Ruby script. I'll start with a few Google searches and see what kind of LDAP gems I can use and if there are any examples or tutorials.
Here are a few results:
For whatever reason, I chose ruby-ldap as my gem to install and ran with its tutorials and examples. Net-LDAP also seemed like a good choice.
I ran a little script just to get started.
But I'm not able to connect. Our LDAP is on SSL with a self signed certificate and I need to import it to my environment. I'm jumping ahead here a bit as I got that script from Christian Hofstadtler's post that helped me troubleshoot the issue. Since I'm developing on OS X, these instructions from Apple got my TLS_CACERT in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf configured correctly.
Now I'm getting data from our LDAP and I need to start filtering and refining. My basic script looks like this:
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