From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2006-08-23T07:59:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to search Ruby files in Windows

Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Sometimes you want to find some particular code snippet and all you 
> know is that it is in some file in a given directory. For example, if 
> you are reading the Pickaxe book and you want to actually run some 
> example code, all you know a priori is that it is somewhere in 
> ex0001.rb through ex1608.rb. I use a Mac and the wonderful Spotlight 
> Ruby Importer available at:
> <http://www.arcadianvisions.com/>
> makes it trivial to find a file containing any given code snippet. I 
> have a friend who uses Windows and she doesn't know how to achieve the 
> same functionality. I've tried running RDoc on the directory 
> containing the Pickaxe code but it quits because it only works on file 
> that actually compile.
>
> So all this is simply to ask: What is the Windows equivalent to the 
> Spotlight Ruby Importer.
>
> -- 
> A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not 
> ideas.
>
>
I use cygwin (www.cygwin.com) and something like:
( mod to your liking, or make different versions for different needs)

cyberhome: /home/rthompso/bin>
$ cat greprb
if [ $# = 1 ]
then
    dir=.
    echo "dir is $dir"
else if [ $# = 2 ]
then
    dir=$2
    echo "dir is $dir"
else
    echo "Usage: 'basename $0' pattern [path]"
    echo "don't forget to quote patterns with spaces"
    echo "\n"
exit 1
fi
fi

find $dir -type f  -name \*.rb -exec grep -l "$1" {} \; -exec grep -n 
"$1" {} \; -exec echo " " \;
==============================================================================
Example output ( filepath and line of occurance ):

$ greprb require .
dir is .
./.vim/plugin/snippetMagic/convert.rb
3:require 'rexml/document'
4:require 'rexml/streamlistener'
5:require 'yaml'
7:require 'snippet_set'
 
./.vim/plugin/snippetMagic/snippets/php.rb
11:    - require_once(..) (req1)
12:    - "require_once( '${1:file}' );$0"
69:    - require(..) (req)
70:    - "require( '${1:file}' );$0"
 
./.vim/plugin/snippetMagic/snippets/propel.rb
16:    - "<column name=\"${1:name}\" type=\"${2:type}\"${3: 
required=\"${4:true}\"}${5:
20:    - "<column name=\"${1:id}\" type=\"${2:integer}\" required=\"true\"
 
./.vim/plugin/snippetMagic/snippet_set.rb
1:require 'yaml'
39:  # make sense to require installation of the gem for a vim plugin.
 
./client.rb
2:require "socket"
 
./date.rb
1:require 'date'
 
./dbtest.rb
1:require 'dbi'
 
./eXPlainPMT-20060408.0/app/controllers/application.rb
38:  before_filter :require_team_membership
70:  # This method can be used as a before_filter for actions which 
should require
75:  def require_admin_privileges
87:  def require_team_membership
123:  def require_current_project
132:      flash[:error] = "You attempted to access a view that requires 
a " +
 
./eXPlainPMT-20060408.0/app/controllers/iterations_controller.rb
22:  before_filter :require_current_project
 
./eXPlainPMT-20060408.0/app/controllers/milestones_controller.rb
22:  before_filter :require_current_project, :except => 
[:milestones_calendar]