From: Roger Pack Date: 2009-06-14T07:40:23+09:00 Subject: Re: ri for gems working? Ben Bleything wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote: >> Precisely my reaction. I'll say it again: If you code up something cool, >> then don't market it, what's the point? Saying - "go read the code" doesn't >> cut it. Put a message somewhere in the �installation output. In this - Eric >> H. - your wonderful Rubygems install/update CLI output needs an addition, >> I'd say. > > gem server has been around _forever_. It's in gem help. It's > mentioned in every book I've seen that talks about the RubyGems > system. Until this thread I thought it was common knowledge. Unfortunately it isn't...totally expected...how to describe it...to run a server in order to access rdocs, so many [most?] users just go happily on their way without accessing local rdocs [or come up with their own auto complete scripts [1] or static pages [2] [3]] for them. What I'd like to see would be a plugin that updates a static index.html page for them at install time. Though I suppose that wouldn't be searchable... The good news is that there are a few libs out there [gembox, sinatra gem server] which try to fill that void, too. They look pretty spiffy. Stay well. -=r [1] http://github.com/cldwalker/dotfiles/tree/master [2] http://blog.olszowka.de/2009/02/13/rdoc-index-for-your-gems/ from http://jasonseifer.com/2009/02/22/offline-gem-server-rdocs [3] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/158828 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.