comp.lang.ruby

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4/3/2008 12:29:00 PM

On Apr 3, 3:56 am, "Michael Fellinger" <m.fellin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:59 AM, <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > WebRI is Webrick-based RI browser. It makes it fairly convenient to browse API documetation in hierachical fashion.
>
> > http://tigerops.rubyforge...
>
> > This is the initial release of WebRI.
>
> > I threw this together as a proof of concept, but it turns out to already be quite usable. I'll add missing features and clean it up as time permits. Same goes for the website.
>
> > Becuase RI itself isn't very fast, if you use WebRI against the entire set of installed Ruby libraries it can take a few seconds to load up. It would be nice to use FastRI instead, for speed, but FastRI does not support HTML output as of yet.
>
> > == CHANGES
>
> > === 0.1.0 / 2008-03-28
>
> > * Initial release.
> > * Shelling out to RI b/c it's easier than using the RDoc API.
> > * Not using FastRI b/c no HTML output.
>
> Got a problem when running webri on the bacon source.
>
> In the constants section:
> "0.9"Hash.new(0)""Hash.new { |_, name| raise NameError, "no such
> context: #{name.inspect}"// unless defined? RestrictName// unless
> defined? RestrictContext

I've noticed constants aren't being displayed right in general. In the
cases I've seen the name of constant just doesn't appear, alhtough
it's description does. I'll look into it and see what's what.

Thanks,
T.