Ruby documentation as a Mac OS X dictionary
Ruby documentation for Dictionary.app is now available thanks to high demand after publishing Rails dictionary. It allows quick access to full API documentation from Spotlight and other OS X dictionary-enabled applications.
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Very awesome stuff! Looking forward to the script itself :-)
This is awesome OS X surprises me every day.
You posted this yesterday, greedy ;-)
Actually, I take that back. This is Ruby documentation not Rails documentation, lol :) I’ll approve you for the feed now if I haven’t already..
Just a note.. this documentation seems to be for Ruby 1.9 (which I think is great, but just noting in case anyone else gets confused..)
My dream: Every gem will work flawlessy in 1.9 in less than 3 months…
Hopefully you’re on http://isitruby19.com/ tracking and reporting then? :-)
Peter, it is generated from Ruby 1.8.6 documentation. Next step is probably to generate different dictionaries for different versions. I was thinking about merging them somehow but that would be much much more confusing i guess.
Hi Pritt,
Can you tell me if “Array” in the ruby docs is empty, and “named_scope” in the rails docs is empty on your side? It seems like I have some missing information. Other than that, this is awesome!
Thanks!
Oh blast. Yes, they’re empty on my side too. It is because Dictionary.app is pretty whiny with html format. Will have to do some fixes anyway so expect these ones fixed in next couple of days.
Outstanding!
Really? 1.8.6 documentation? It seems to feature each_char which isn’t in my 1.8.6.
Probably 1.8.7 then.
I have wrote simple script and put it on my github reposritory. Check it out at
http://github.com/crossbreeze/apple_dic_generator_from_ri/tree/master
Amazing tool. I have written a post about it.
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