From: Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T10:42:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.1.0: faster, smarter RI docs for Ruby, DRb-enabled

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Thanks,

I had to update my rubygems and then rebuild the fastri index and it is now
working!

dom

On 11/13/06, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Mauricio Fernandez  -   http://eigenclass.org   -  singular Ruby
>
>

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