From: Piergiuliano Bossi <p_bossi_AGAINST_SPAM@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T02:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] IHelp 0.2.0

Hello, just a brief note in order to detail it a little bit more.
I have 2 machines, both with Win2000 PRO, SP4.

The former has ruby 1.8.2-RC10 (I guess, not final). In any case:

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32]

Under this platform, error is found by loadpath_manager in rubygems:

irb(main):001:0> "".help
NoMethodError: undefined method `help' for "":String
         from (irb):1
         from 
c:/apps/ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/loadpath_manager.rb:5

Please note that I have installed at least 1 gem (extensions).


The latter has a fresh ruby 1.8.2 installation:

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

As you can see error here is found by a different source:

irb(main):001:0> "".help
NoMethodError: undefined method `help' for "":String
         from (irb):1
         from c:/apps/ruby18/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:2

I don't know if it matters, though.

Thanks anyway, I like it.
Giuliano

Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
> 
> On 18.1.2005, at 14:56, Piergiuliano Bossi wrote:
> 
>> Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:
>>
>>>   If you think it makes the irb startup too slow, load it in a thread:
>>>     Thread.new{ require 'ihelp' }
>>>   But note that calling help will fail before it's completely loaded.
>>
>>
>> Sorry, but loading it in a separate thread doesn't work under windows 
>> (neither 0.1):
>>
>> [snip]
>> Note that I have only
>>     Thread.new { require 'ihelp' }
>> in .irbrc therefore 9 minutes should be enough to load, shouldn't 
>> they? :)
>>
> 
> Yes it definitely should.
> I don't know why it doesn't work, sorry :(
> 
> I wonder why it doesn't work... Guess I'll boot to windows tomorrow and 
> find out.
> Better not load it in a thread for the time being ;)
> 
>> Btw, which differences since 0.1 apart from setup?
>>
> 
> Not much external changes, apart from working around that TypeError 
> exception ri started raising in 1.8.2.
> 
> Refactored code, changed the name, rewrote documentation, added tests, 
> fixed bugs.
> 
> Now I have 0.3.0 candidate in the darcs repo, which separates the code 
> more from the ri cmdline tool and has changable help renderers. I have a 
> simple alternative handler there that opens the ruby-doc.org class doc 
> in a web browser (on osx), it merely grabs the class name and puts it in 
> the url, calls the osx `open`-cmd, and is around 5 lines of code.
> 
> -- 
> Ilmari Heikkinen (is going through version numbers way too fast)
> 
> 
> 

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