First packaged release of the Ruby DocBar code. ruby-docbar 0.1.0 is a set of scripts and resource files used to create a Mozilla sidebar for Ruby documentation and reference pages. Ideally, this code makes it painless to update/edit the sidebar page set.
See also http://www.ruby-doc.org/docbar/toc_tut.html for an example of pages built with this code.
Download here:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=436
On a side note: There was a request to add the Ruby 1.8.1 C API doxygen pages to the current Ruby sidebar. I haven't done that, but I believe that the code in the ruby-docbar project gets you halfway there. The project includes a script for fetching a page and extracting links; the example is the C API modules page:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/doxygen/1.8.1/modules.html
The awkward part is fixing up the nice indentation. If anyone cares to take a crack, or has other pages that would fit well in a Ruby sidebar, let me know. I can add them as resource files to the project. See the project docs for file format details.
And to clarify: there is a sidebar hosted at ruby-doc.org
http://www.ruby-doc.org/doxygen/1.8.1/modules.html
I will likely not add much to what it is right now, expect perhaps to add C API pages. Maybe. It can get cluttered. The main goal of the ruby-docbar project is to help people assemble their own sidebars as they see fit. Maybe there is someone way to host a single, publicly-accessible set that each user can locally configure, but this isn't it.
But having numerous resource files in the project means you get a better choice of what to include in your personal version.
Anyway, I hope this is handy.
James Britt
ruby-doc.org