From: badboy <badboy@...>
Date: 2009-02-22T02:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: ask ri for the other squeeze

matt neuburg schrieb:
> First off, may I say that ri, with its recent improvements, is now
> useful to me for the first time since I started using ruby? With the
> spaces after the commas, the listing of a class's superclass, the
> ability to search up the class hierarchy, and so forth, I can now
> usually find what I'm looking for and read the result.
> 
> That said, there remain a few edge cases on my machine where ri seems to
> break down. An example is String#squeeze, which comes up with an empty
> description:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------- String#squeeze
>      squeeze(del=nil)
> 
>      From /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/site/String/cdesc-String.yaml
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      [no description]
> 
> There is, however, another String#squeeze that *does* have a
> description. Where there's a choice like this, I'd like to see the one
> with the description. I can say:
> 
> $ ri --no-site String#squeeze
> 
> and that does work, but it also causes a huge delay both now while the
> cache is rebuilt and on the next ri search without --no-site while the
> cache is rebuilt *again*. What I'd really like is syntax for choosing
> between different String#squeeze. For example, maybe the -i interactive
> option could give me the ability to enter numbers?
> 
> m.
> 
hm...I have no problems with String#squeeze
not for ruby 1.8.7 nor for 1.9.1

but I prefer fastri over ri, because....it's *faster* =D
http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri