Rubiods:
After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually, more than
one, but I have to start somewhere...
How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or 'man'? How
can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer, with a
'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?
--
Phlip
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/
"Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)"
assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax
Phlip wrote:
Rubiods:
After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually, more than one, but I have to start somewhere...
How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or 'man'? How can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer, with a 'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?
Assuming you installed the documentation, you can use ri.
ri String#to_i
for example.
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It's spelled "ri".
ri Array
ri String
ri Hash#each
ri Object::new
On 7/20/07, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
Rubiods:
After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually, more
than
one, but I have to start somewhere...How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or 'man'? How
can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer, with a
'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?--
Phlip
Test Driven Ajax (on Rails) [Book]
"Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)"
assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax
ri
example:
ri ClassName
ri method_name
ri Class#method
ri Class.method
On Jul 20, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Phlip wrote:
Rubiods:
After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually, more than
one, but I have to start somewhere...How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or 'man'? How
can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer, with a
'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?--
Phlip
Test Driven Ajax (on Rails) [Book]
"Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)"
assert_xpath, assert_javascript, & assert_ajax
And for a better performing alternative, get Mauricio Fernandez fastri
http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?fastri
It provides a qri command which pretty much directly substitutes for
ri. It's available as a gem.
On 7/20/07, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
Phlip wrote:
> Rubiods:
>
> After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually, more than
> one, but I have to start somewhere...
>
> How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or 'man'? How
> can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer, with a
> 'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?
>
Assuming you installed the documentation, you can use ri.ri String#to_i
for example.
--
Rick DeNatale
My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 7/20/07, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
Phlip wrote:
> Rubiods:
>
> After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually,
more than
> one, but I have to start somewhere...
>
> How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or
'man'? How
> can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer,
with a
> 'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?
>
>
Assuming you installed the documentation, you can use ri.ri String#to_i
for example.
And for a better performing alternative, get Mauricio Fernandez fastri
http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?fastriIt provides a qri command which pretty much directly substitutes for
ri. It's available as a gem.
IIRC it is *significantly* faster if you install from a tarball rather
than as a gem, but I don't remember why. Can someone enlighten me?
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
Phlip wrote:
Rubiods:
After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually,
more than
one, but I have to start somewhere...
How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or
'man'? How
can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer,
with a
'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?
Assuming you installed the documentation, you can use ri.
ri String#to_i
for example.
And for a better performing alternative, get Mauricio Fernandez fastri
http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?fastriIt provides a qri command which pretty much directly substitutes for
ri. It's available as a gem.IIRC it is *significantly* faster if you install from a tarball rather
than as a gem, but I don't remember why. Can someone enlighten me?
Presumably (and this is a wild stab in the dark) if it's installed as a gem, it requires rubygems before doing anything to do with your query. Loading rubygems is itself a slow operation.
On 7/20/07, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
--
Alex
Excerpts from M. Edward (Ed) Borasky's message of Sat Jul 21 06:09:14 +0300 2007:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
>> Phlip wrote:
>> > Rubiods:
>> >
>> > After years of studying Ruby, one factoid has eluded me. Actually,
>> more than
>> > one, but I have to start somewhere...
>> >
>> > How, on a command line, can I do the equivalent of 'apropos' or
>> 'man'? How
>> > can I search the RDoc knowledge base installed on my own computer,
>> with a
>> > 'less' interface, without Googling for everything all the time?
>> >
>> >
>> Assuming you installed the documentation, you can use ri.
>>
>> ri String#to_i
>>
>> for example.
>
> And for a better performing alternative, get Mauricio Fernandez fastri
> http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?fastri
>
> It provides a qri command which pretty much directly substitutes for
> ri. It's available as a gem.
>
IIRC it is *significantly* faster if you install from a tarball rather
than as a gem, but I don't remember why. Can someone enlighten me?
During the build I see:
A small note about RubyGems + FastRI
> On 7/20/07, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
====================================
RubyGems adds a noticeable overhead to fri, making it run slower than if
you
installed it directly from the tarball with setup.rb.
--
Eugen Minciu.
Wasting valuable time since 1985.
This is true, BUT even when installed as a gem, it's significantly
faster than ri.
The difference kicks in when you use it a lot, for example when you
use Mauricio's tools which invoke it from inside textmate or vim.
On 7/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
> It provides a qri command which pretty much directly substitutes for
> ri. It's available as a gem.
>
IIRC it is *significantly* faster if you install from a tarball rather
than as a gem, but I don't remember why. Can someone enlighten me?
--
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I am a dreamer and i also admit i like CSS and good looking, visual
clean documentation in a browser, but i still hope that one day a huge,
up-to-date ruby reference can be read online, maintained with useful
remarks (optional) by a community - and that we can leave rdoc as a
relict of the past - or keept it for those that want it, while I could
read the fancy, stylish online docu! Dont take this too serious, i am
just wishing and hoping! And yeah, I do think that rdoc looks not very
... satisfying :>
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I've just had a quick play about with qri and ri...
benjohn # qri syntax
nil
benjohn # qri nitro
nil
benjohn # qri ramaze
nil
benjohn # qri httpserver
nil
benjohn # qri tcpserver
nil
benjohn # qri TCP
nil
I guess either I don't have much indexed, or I'm in need of a looser search than the default? Do I need to do something to make sure ruby and the Gems I've got installed are indexed? 
I guess the likely answer is YES!
Cheers,
Benj
I've compiled my own rdoc of every library I have use and the core,
using a template I found online, and it looks VERY good, including
stuff like javascript search-as-you-type of the whole index (separate
for methods, files, classes).
Try that.
Aur
On 7/21/07, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:
I am a dreamer and i also admit i like CSS and good looking, visual
clean documentation in a browser, but i still hope that one day a huge,
up-to-date ruby reference can be read online, maintained with useful
remarks (optional) by a community - and that we can leave rdoc as a
relict of the past - or keept it for those that want it, while I could
read the fancy, stylish online docu! Dont take this too serious, i am
just wishing and hoping! And yeah, I do think that rdoc looks not very
... satisfying :>
Alle domenica 22 luglio 2007, Benjohn Barnes ha scritto:
I've just had a quick play about with qri and ri...
> benjohn # qri syntax
> nil
> benjohn # qri nitro
> nil
> benjohn # qri ramaze
> nil
> benjohn # qri httpserver
> nil
> benjohn # qri tcpserver
> nil
> benjohn # qri TCP
> nilI guess either I don't have much indexed, or I'm in need of a looser
search than the default? Do I need to do something to make sure ruby
and the Gems I've got installed are indexed?
answer is YES!Cheers,
Benj
If I remember correctly, you need to do
fastri-server -b
I hope this helps
Stefano