PickAxe index?

ruby-talk
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Does PickAxe online have an index?

I often find that I can’t find things in PickAxe because I don’t know
where they are. For instance, now I’m looking for information on case
statements. I know it’s there somewhere. I’ve seen it. But for the
life of me I can’t figure out where it is.

Perhaps ri can be extended to include more than just classes.

For now, I’ll continue searching through PickAxe.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Math Dept. University of
Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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Oh, BTW, I did eventually find what I was looking for. But I still think
that it’d be good if PickAxe had an index.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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The Ruby Document Bundle contains an online pickaxe with an index in a
separate frame.

Gavin

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On Sunday, January 19, 2003, 9:47:49 AM, Daniel wrote:

Does PickAxe online have an index?

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Perhaps ri can be extended to include more than just classes.

It can. See Rimport
http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=rimport

(But know that work on rimport has been halted for assorted reasons.)

For now, I’ll continue searching through PickAxe.

Or use the slightly enhanced ri hosted at ruby-doc.org

http://www.ruby-doc.org/find

(It just calls Rimport running on the server.)

James

www.jamesbritt.com

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Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Math Dept. University of
Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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I have ano lder copy of the book which you can find at
http://nero.netwalk.org/ruby/

that one has a very nice index… anyone know what happened to that
index in the new one?

db

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:47:49AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

Does PickAxe online have an index?

I often find that I can’t find things in PickAxe because I don’t know
where they are. For instance, now I’m looking for information on case
statements. I know it’s there somewhere. I’ve seen it. But for the
life of me I can’t figure out where it is.

Perhaps ri can be extended to include more than just classes.

For now, I’ll continue searching through PickAxe.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Math Dept. University of
Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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It sure does have one: pages 537 to 564 :wink:

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:51:00AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

Oh, BTW, I did eventually find what I was looking for. But I still think
that it’d be good if PickAxe had an index.

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It does have an index. :wink:

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On Saturday 18 January 2003 05:51 pm, Daniel Carrera wrote:

Oh, BTW, I did eventually find what I was looking for. But I still think
that it’d be good if PickAxe had an index.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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Which version of the Pickaxe are you looking at?

If it’s the Pickaxe in HTML format, in the lower left hand corner there is
a window labeled “jump targets”. Click C. This takes you to a list of
things that start with C. There are two entries for “Case Expressions”.

I don’t have access to my Windows machine but I’m pretty sure the Pickaxe
in the Windows Help file format has an index. I know it has a search tool.

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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:51:00 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

Oh, BTW, I did eventually find what I was looking for. But I still
think that it’d be good if PickAxe had an index.

Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301)
405-5137

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Cool. My tutorial made it to the bundle. :slight_smile:

Thanks for preparing this bundle Gavin.

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:26:38AM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

The Ruby Document Bundle contains an online pickaxe with an index in a
separate frame.

www.ruby-doc.org

Gavin

–
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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On that web page, we find this very interesting date: “Fri, 10 Feb 2003”

I knew Guido has a time machine … I didn’t know Ruby-doc had one too.
:slight_smile:

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On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 21:26, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

The Ruby Document Bundle contains an online pickaxe with an index in a
separate frame.

www.ruby-doc.org

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Which version of the Pickaxe are you looking at?

The online version.

If it’s the Pickaxe in HTML format, in the lower left hand corner there is
a window labeled “jump targets”. Click C.

On the online version I can’t see where it says “jump targets”. Is that a
download version? Where can I download it?

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:11:04AM +0900, Tim Hunter wrote:

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Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137

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Has anyone mentioned the PickAxe book at
http://dev.faeriemud.org/ProgrammingRuby/ ?
It has a nice index and table of contents in the “NavBar”.
Or is it an implementation of some other, pre-existing documentation?

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It did :slight_smile: And I’m eagerly awaiting an announcement on -talk of an
update…

Gavin

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On Sunday, January 19, 2003, 1:43:09 PM, Daniel wrote:

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:26:38AM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

The Ruby Document Bundle contains an online pickaxe with an index in a
separate frame.

www.ruby-doc.org

Gavin

Cool. My tutorial made it to the bundle. :slight_smile:

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So you know. I’m currently studying for a Qualifier Exam and a final
exam. This is taking up my time right now. I’m also working on a ruby
program to automate a few things for the tutorial.

There will definitelly be more updates comming. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:54:19PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

Cool. My tutorial made it to the bundle. :slight_smile:

It did :slight_smile: And I’m eagerly awaiting an announcement on -talk of an
update…

Gavin

–
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137