From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T04:04:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.1.0: faster, smarter RI docs for Ruby, DRb-enabled

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:13:00AM +0900, Dominic Sisneros wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
> >FastRI is an alternative to the ri command-line tool. It is *much* faster,
> >and also allows you to offer RI lookup services over DRb. FastRI is smarter
> >than ri, and can find classes anywhere in the hierarchy without specifying
> >the "full path". It also knows about gems, and can tell you e.g. which
> >extensions to a core class were added by a specific gem.
>
> How do you get it to index ruby gems?

fastri-server searches "#{Gem.path}/doc/*/ri" for yaml files holding RI
documentation when it builds the index (the first time you run it and when you
do  fastri-server -b). These files are generated by RubyGems as you install
the corresponding package (since 0.9.0).

Unlike ri, FastRI remembers in which gem a method/class/module was defined.
This knowledge will soon be exposed to the end-user, allowing you to know e.g.
which gems extend a given core class, or to get the extensions introduced by a
gem.

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