From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-02-22T03:10:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ask ri for the other squeeze

badboy <badboy@heartofgold.co.cc> wrote:

> 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*

Faster, but long ago broken OMM. It stopped working one day (after a
rdoc update, I think) and just never worked again. It doesn't look very
supported and I assume it is no longer maintained...?

I am still back at 1.8.6.

$ qri String
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `transfer': invalid subclass
(TypeError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `node_import'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:72:in
`deserialize'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in
`get_class'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in
`open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in
`get_class'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:352:in
`each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:352:in
`get_class'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_service.rb:209:in `info'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_service.rb:422:in
`capture_stdout'
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_service.rb:208:in `info'
        from /usr/local/bin/qri:342
        from /usr/local/bin/qri:337:in `each'
        from /usr/local/bin/qri:337

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