full text searching for ri content (See related posts)

From ZenSpider, http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/08/full_text_searc.html:
Check it out. Quick and dirty searching of ri content:

Updated using: http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/08/new_and_improve.html

They added path independence and searching of gems and local installed ri/rdoc. Enjoy!

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w

require 'rdoc/ri/ri_paths'
require 'find'
require 'yaml'

search = ARGV.shift

puts "Searching for #{search}"
puts

dirs = RI::Paths::PATH
dirs.each do |dir|
  Dir.chdir dir do
    Find.find('.') do |path|
      next unless test ?f, path
      yaml = File.read path
      if yaml =~ /#{search}/io then
        full_name = $1 if yaml[/full_name: (.*)/]
        puts "** FOUND IN: #{full_name}"
        
        data = YAML.load yaml.gsub(/ \!.*/, '')
        desc = data['comment'].map { |x| x.values }.flatten.join("\n").gsub(/&quot;/, "'").gsub(/&lt;/, "<").gsub(/&gt;/, ">").gsub(/&amp;/, "&")
        puts
        puts desc
        puts
      end
    end
  end
end

Lets you do stuff like:

% ./risearch.rb duplicate
Searching for duplicate
[...]
** FOUND IN: Array#uniq!

Removes duplicate elements from self. Returns nil if no changes are made (that is, no duplicates are found).
   a = [ 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c' ]
   a.uniq!   #=> ['a', 'b', 'c']
   b = [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]
   b.uniq!   #=> nil

** FOUND IN: Array#|

Set Union---Returns a new array by joining this array with other_array, removing duplicates.
   [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ] | [ 'c', 'd', 'a' ]
          #=> [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ]
[...]

Posted by zenspider at August 15, 2006 04:16 PM | Bookmark This
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