From: Piergiuliano Bossi <p_bossi_AGAINST_SPAM@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T01:47:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Help 0.1: access ri from irb (using the ri library)

Newbee question: where should I put help.rb?

I have put it in C:\Apps\ruby18\lib\ruby\1.8 (where C:\Apps\ruby18 is 
ruby home) and it works, but I wonder what other people do, especially 
considering future upgrade.

Btw, nice job! :-)

Ciao, Giuliano

Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
> Bit the bullet and finished this little straggler.
> If you find bugs, let me know (refactorings also welcome.)
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/91614 is 
> similar but bound by ri's
> default behaviour. Which this one overrides by doing lookups in 
> ancestors and
> instance/class methods. Maybe ri should work like this one does (or vice 
> versa)?
> 
> 
> -Ilmari
> ========
> 
> Download:
> http://fhtr.org/code/help.rb
> 
> Requirements:
> Ri in working order. Works in 1.8.2 at least.
> 
> ========
> 
> # Ri bindings for interactive use from within Ruby.
> # Does a bit of second-guessing (Instance method? Class method? Try both
> # unless explicitly defined.)
> # Goal is getting obj.methods.find_all{|m| not obj.help_yaml(m)} empty.
> #
> #   require 'help'
> #
> #   a = "string"
> #   a.help
> #   a.help :reverse
> #   a.help :map
> #   String.help
> #   String.help :new
> #   String.help :reverse
> #   String.help :map
> #   String.instance_help :reverse
> #   String.instance_help :new # => No help found.
> #   a.help :new
> #   help "String#reverse"
> #   help "String.reverse"
> #   a.method(:reverse).help # gets help for Method
> #
> #
> # 10 points and a duck drawing for the person who makes the Ri database
> # word/regexp/fuzzy/synonym-searchable and integrates this with that.
> # Maybe something like this:
> #   search_help("file open|close")
> #   => ['IO.open', 'IO.close']
> # NOTE: There is NO search_help. Yet. Write it. ]^|
> #
> #
> #   License: Ruby's
> #   Author: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig misfiring net>
> #   Date: 2004-12-22
> 
> 
> 

-- 
If you want to send me an email address should be 'p', then a dot, 
followed by 'bossi' at 'quinary', another dot and 'com' at last