On 7/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb / cesmail.net> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:

> > It provides a qri command which pretty much directly substitutes for
> > ri.  It's available as a gem.
> >
> IIRC it is *significantly* faster if you install from a tarball rather
> than as a gem, but I don't remember why. Can someone enlighten me?

This is true, BUT even when installed as a gem, it's significantly
faster than ri.

The difference kicks in when you use it a lot, for example when you
use Mauricio's tools which invoke it from inside textmate or vim.


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