On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Roger Pack<rogerpack2005 / gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben Bleything wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Tom Cloyd<tomcloyd / comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Precisely my reaction. I'll say it again: If you code up something cool,
>>> then don't market it, what's the point? Saying - "go read the code" doesn't
>>> cut it. Put a message somewhere in the �énstallation output. Inhis - Eric
>>> H. - your wonderful Rubygems install/update CLI output needs an addition,
>>> I'd say.
>>
>> gem server has been around _forever_. It's in gem help. It's
>> mentioned in every book I've seen that talks about the RubyGems
>> system. Until this thread I thought it was common knowledge.
>
> Unfortunately it isn't...totally expected...how to describe it...to run
> a server in order to access rdocs, so many [most?] users just go happily
> on their way without accessing local rdocs [or come up with their own
> auto complete scripts [1] or static pages [2] [3]] for them.
>
> What I'd like to see would be a plugin that updates a static index.html
> page for them at install time. Though I suppose that wouldn't be
> searchable...
>
> The good news is that there are a few libs out there [gembox, sinatra
> gem server] which try to fill that void, too. They look pretty spiffy.
> Stay well.
> -=r
>
>
> [1] http://github.com/cldwalker/dotfiles/tree/master
> [2] http://blog.olszowka.de/2009/02/13/rdoc-index-for-your-gems/ from
> http://jasonseifer.com/2009/02/22/offline-gem-server-rdocs
> [3] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/158828
> --

I like bdoc http://github.com/manalang/bdoc/tree/master

"Bdoc is a simple replacement for gem server. All it does is look at
all of the Gems you have installed locally and creates a nice iframe
based browser that makes it easy to navigate between gem docs. IT DOES
NOT REQUIRE A SERVER FOR VIEWING¡Ä not like gem server does!"

Best,
Michael Guterl