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Re: Show HN: Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation

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Post by ollysb »

timr wrote: post #26
csmattryder wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, that's it. Would love to just click the one from the results, then have that view. But if I have to then click the name on the right, that's fine too.

We're working on that right now, actually. We weren't sure that people would want it, though, so that's good feedback. ;-)

That looks perfect, would definitely be appreciated.

Re: Show HN: Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation

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Post by timr »

atmosx wrote: post #17
montanalow wrote: post #2

Tim & I are planning to spend quite a bit more time on this, what do you other devs want to see in documentation search? Full stack? Multi version? Comments? Examples? IDE integration? What would make your life better?

I would like to have code examples in many libraries. But I'm not sure how you could achieve this... Maybe linking stackoverflow related posts in some way.

This is on the feature short-list. We actually had it in there early on, but we weren't happy with the quality, so we pulled it.

We're going to re-try with a different approach that we think will work better. It's definitely going to happen.

Re: Show HN: Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation

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Post by latortuga »

Anyone looking for functionality like this in a local, offline reference should check out YARD[1]. I (embarrassingly) only recently set it up to serve a set of my common gems and the ruby standard lib and it works and looks great.

[1] http://yardoc.org

Re: Show HN: Omniref - a better search site for Ruby documentation

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Post by JonnieCache »

timr wrote: post #28
JonnieCache wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Load the rdoc for all of rubygems/github into it. Like rdoc.info et al

We already have all of the documentation for all of the current ruby gems, plus the ruby standard library. We don't yet have all versions of everything, but that's coming soon. AFAIK, we're already more comprehensive than the existing sites, though.

Ah. It seems that for some reason I searched by the gem name, which obviously came up with nothing.
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