From: ralobao@...
Date: 2004-12-23T06:32:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Help 0.1: access ri from irb (using the ri library)


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