Comments on: How to run FastRI on Ruby 1.9.1

By: Arnaud Meuret

Arnaud Meuret — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:49:22 +0000

Solved the superclass mismatch problem; now it works nicely.

All I had to do (after understanding the message, thanks to http://jackndempsey.blogspot.com/2008/06/superclass-mismatch.html) was get rid of old rdoc gems (sudo gem uni rdoc).

By: Arnaud Meuret

Arnaud Meuret — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:46:06 +0000

Yes, same thing on Linux, it has been broken since at least ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041).

Sad.

By: Leonardo Valeri Manera

Leonardo Valeri Manera — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:35:52 +0000

Here its failing with a superclass mismatch for class Paragraph from rdoc/markup/fragments.rb:4 on 1.9.1p429 Winstaller as soon as any part of fastri is called …

By: Moritz Bunkus

Moritz Bunkus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:37:53 +0000

My point is that “the fastri from here” doesn’t work properly for me. fastri-server outputs to its stdout which is totally useless as fastri-server is usually started as a daemon.

As for fastri in rb: yes, I did use it and I love it’s tab completion (well, that’s actually provided by “irb_lookup”). I didn’t know ri_for and will give it a try. irb_lookup has code for invoking ri instead of fri, so I’ll try that as well combined with the newer ri gem.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:23 +0000

AS a note newer versions of RDoc have an ri lookup that is *much* faster.
Doing a gem install rdoc helps much in this regard.

For those looking for irb fastri you could checkout ri_for
http://github.com/rdp/ri_for

or such (or use fastri from here). That’s about your only options

-r

By: Moritz Bunkus

Moritz Bunkus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:24 +0000

Unfortunately your patch doesn’t work right for me. It applies cleanly to fastri 0.3.1, no error messages, but whenever I invoke “fri” the output from fastri-server goes to fastri-server’s stdout, and “fri” itself only outputs a single blank line.

Any idea how to fix that?

By: Bhrgunatha

Bhrgunatha — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:26:02 +0000

I came across another problem – trying to build a full text index using fastri-server -B fails.

You can fix it by changing line 57 of fastri-server (in the make_full_text_index method) from:

paths = [ RI::Paths::SYSDIR, RI::Paths::SITEDIR, RI::Paths::HOMEDIR ].find_all do |p|

paths = [ ::RDoc::RI::Paths::SYSDIR, ::RDoc::RI::Paths::SITEDIR, ::RDoc::RI::Paths::HOMEDIR ].find_all do |p|

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:01:27 +0000

Next time someone mentions FastRI I will

By: roger

roger — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:02:45 +0000

suh weet. Maybe advertise it on ruby talk so people know?
=r

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:00:03 +0000

@Roger,
Alrighty, I’ve set up a project and had github build a gem, you can install it with ‘sudo gem install dakrone-fastri’. Enjoy!