From: Hemant Kumar <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-02-01T04:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.0: standalone mode (qri, DRb not needed),	additional search methods, extended class info

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:54 +0900, 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.
> 
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Dunno, fastri used to work fine for me with 1.8.4 (installed from Ubuntu
repos) but since I complied Ruby and components manually, it stopped
working and throws wierd errors:

$ fri Array (fri Array#each and other stuff returns nil)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in `initialize': No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/mocha-0.3.2/ri/Array/cdesc-Array.yaml (Errno::ENOENT)

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in `open'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in `get_class'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_index.rb:352:in `each'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_index.rb:352:in `get_class'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_service.rb:208:in `info'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_service.rb:418:in `capture_stdout'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/lib/fastri/ri_service.rb:207:in `info'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/bin/qri:325

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/bin/qri:320:in
`each'

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastri-0.3.0.1/bin/qri:320
        from /usr/local/bin/qri:18:in `load'
        from /usr/local/bin/qri:18

Am I missing something here?