From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2007-02-01T05:31:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FastRI 0.3.0: standalone mode (qri, DRb not needed), additional search methods, extended class info

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:27:12AM +0900, Hemant Kumar wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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)
   ==== (actually qri :)
> /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/bin/qri:320
>         from /usr/local/bin/qri:18:in `load'
>         from /usr/local/bin/qri:18

Does this still happen after rebuilding the index with fastri-server -b?
If some gems have been removed, the index will have dangling pointers to
inexistent files.

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