From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T11:51:48+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby.codefetch.com offers API and books search

maybe run the ruby C source through your tokenizer/indexer and then we
can compare to gonzui

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 10/3/05, cosmo <spammable@codefetch.com> wrote:
> > cosmo wrote:
> > > >>no API docs are returned when I search, for example, on 'REXML'
> > >
> > > Right now we only index the core classes, not the stdlib.
> >
> > It looks like indexing the stdlib would flummox our scanner because
> > there are class names that are identical to core class names.  Am I
> > missing something, or are some classes simply documented twice, once in
> > stdlib and once in core?  An example of this would be the class
> > "abbrev".
>
> How are you trying to index? You *do* realize that classes are
> completely open in Ruby, don't you, allowing stdlib to add new
> methods, etc. that aren't supported/in the C-based core Ruby?
>
> And, please, as James said, it isn't "Ruby Rails". It's just "Ruby".
> Rails is just an application framework on top of Ruby. Ruby makes
> Rails possible, not the other way around.
>
> -austin
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