From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2007-01-30T18:37:57+09:00
Subject: Re: FastRI 0.3.0: standalone mode (qri, DRb not needed), additional search methods, extended class info

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:05:07AM +0900, bbiker wrote:
> Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> > FastRI is an alternative to the ri documentation browser for Ruby.
> > As of 0.3.0, FastRI can operate in standalone mode (without using a DRb
> > server, see below), so it can now fully replace ri for most intents and
> > purposes.
> 
> I currently have fastri 0.2.1 installed via the tarball.
> 
> Should I uninstall fastri 0.2.1 prior to installing fastri 0.3.0?

There should be no need to; if you install with setup.rb it will just
overwrite 0.2.1.

> >
> > > qri that defaults to local mode (it behaves otherwise identically to fri).
> 
> I have downloaded fastri 0.3.0 and unzipped...not setup yet.
> 
> I noticed that there is no "qri.rb" file in any of the folders. Did I 
> download the right version?

qri.rb is generated at install time by pre-install.rb (one of setup.rb's
hooks); it's just a copy of bin/fri (I'd use a symlink if it were supported on
all platforms).

> The readme.en file does not mention qri as far as I can see.

I haven't updated README.en, but qri should be available once you install.

> When and often should I rebuild the  index with fastri-server -b

You need to run it once before you use fri(fastri-server)/qri. You can rebuild
the index when you install a gem whose documentation you want to access with
fri/qri. fastri-server -b will reindex all the available documentation, but it
only takes ~15s for over 110 installed gems on a slow computer (I might make
it incremental someday).

> When and often should I rebuild the full-text index with fastri-server -B

Same as fastri-server -b, rebuild whenever you want newly installed
documentation to be searchable with fri/qri.

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