From: Randy Lawrence <jm@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T03:03:52+09:00
Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing

Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> On Jul 9, 2004, at 12:27, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> 
>> It'd be nice if someone kept the Ruby APIs documented in a
>> searchable/browsable way, akin to how PHP docs are maintained, but I
>> personally don't need the entire Pickaxe as PDF/HTML.
> 
> 
> Ummm.... we have that. I (and some great helpers) added the book's 
> documentation for all built-in classes and modules to the source a while 
> back. This means they can be RDoced, and hence viewed using ri and as 
> HTML. Have a look at http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/rdoc/1.9/
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> (Gosh, it'd be nice if ruby-doc attributed its contributors... I'm 
> guessing that I wrote at least 50% of the site's content :))
> 
> 
> 

Yea, ruby-doc is very nice!

Are there any plans to add support for a searchable version with user 
comments?

For example, this doc page for MySQL (searchable with user comments) is 
much more helpful because of the user comments below the documentation:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Linux-RPM.html

Thanks and keep up the great work on ruby-doc!