From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T16:26:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Firefox Ruby sidebar (Re: ruby sidebar for firefox?)

would it be possible to get a developer section on
there for announcements and Ruby changes? Mainly the
commit messages out of the CVS for Ruby_1_8. I watch
the cvs bot that was set up on IRC, but it would be
nice to see it when I browse the web :). --David Ross

--- James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:

> James Britt wrote:
> > Daniel Berger wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I came across this nifty looking sidebar for
> Python documentation at
> >> http://projects.edgewall.com/python-sidebar/.  Is
> there something
> >> similar for Ruby?  If not, does someone need a
> project? :)
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, it  looks pretty trivial;  : %
> s/Python/Ruby/g did 1/3 the 
> > work.  I think; have to test this.
> 
> Less trivial than my first glance suggested, but
> then I wasn't happy
> with the prospect of hand-coding XHTML and
> maintaining consistent, 
> tabbed headings if pages are added or removed.
> 
> So, I wrote a tool to write a tool: code that slurps
> in a combo of YAML
> and Textile, gloms them with some simple templates,
> and writes out set 
> of files suitable for an attractive Firefox sidebar.
> 
> > 
> > I can put one together for ruby-doc.org.
> 
> Which you can see here:
> 
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/docbar/
> 
> version 0.1 for safety's sake, though I doubt I'll
> do much more for the
> moment.  Down the line, though, there needs to be a
> way to automagically 
> update the source files so that current versions can
> be generated using 
> cron.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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