Anyway, if you found this, you probably don’t want to listen to me blabber, you want to know how to get it running on Ruby 1.9.x, so I humbly present a patch!

Download the patch here (older version) version 2

Download the patch here, version 3.

First, download the FastRI tarball (version 0.3.1 is latest at the time of this writing) from rubyforge.

Here’s how to install the patch:

% tar zxf fastri-0.3.1.tar.gz
% cd fastri-0.3.1
% patch -p1 < ../fastri-0.3.1-ruby1.9.1.v2.patch
patching file bin/fastri-server
patching file lib/fastri/ri_index.rb
patching file lib/fastri/ri_service.rb
patching file lib/fastri/util.rb
patching file test/test_functional_ri_service.rb
% sudo ruby setup.rb

And you’re done! Now you’ll need to make sure to do a ‘fastri-server -b‘ to build the cache, and from there you can use FastRI the same as it was in Ruby 1.8, see:

[hinmanm@Xanadu:~]% qri String.each_codepoint
-------------------------------------------------- String#each_codepoint
str.each_codepoint {|integer| block }    => str
From
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Passes the Integer ordinal of each character in str, also known as
a codepoint when applied to Unicode strings to the given block.
"hello\u0639".each_codepoint {|c| print c, ' ' }
produces:
104 101 108 108 111 1593

Notes/Caveats/Disclaimers & Warnings:

This patch is a WORK IN PROGRESS, it may hang, crash, steal your wallet and/or delete files. I hacked it up in a day looking at FastRI because I really like using ‘qri’ for everything and was consistently annoyed by getting docs intended for 1.8. I assume no responsibility for these things.

Also, note that all tests don’t pass with this patch, I’m still working on it.

Feel free to leave any feedback for me

UPDATE:
New version of the patch that fixes doing a lookup on a base class instead of a method. so… version 3 right now. (link above)

UPDATE2:
I created a github project for fastri to build a gem, so you can install the gem (without patching!) using this command:

sudo gem install dakrone-fastri -s http://gems.github.com

I have also been playing around with the new Ruby RC release for version 1.9.1. In an effort to get some current code running, I found that hyperestraier doesn’t compile the native ruby bindings using 1.9.1 correctly. You’ll see this error when attempting to compile:

~/hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative$ make
( cd src && if ! [ -f Makefile ] ; then /usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb ; fi )
checking for estraier.h... yes
checking for main() in -lestraier... yes
creating Makefile
( cd src && make )
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hinmanm/hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative/src'
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.1/i686-linux -I/usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/usr/local/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. -DHAVE_ESTRAIER_H  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -fPIC -I. -I.. -I../.. -I/usr/include/estraier  -I/usr/include/qdbm -Wall  -O2 -g -Wall -Wno-parentheses -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr  -o estraier.o -c estraier.c
estraier.c: In function ‘doc_make_snippet’:
estraier.c:354: error: ‘struct RArray’ has no member named ‘len’
estraier.c: In function ‘db_search_meta’:
estraier.c:767: error: ‘struct RArray’ has no member named ‘len’
estraier.c: In function ‘objtocblist’:
estraier.c:1192: error: ‘struct RArray’ has no member named ‘len’
estraier.c:1195: error: ‘struct RString’ has no member named ‘ptr’
estraier.c:1195: error: ‘struct RString’ has no member named ‘len’
estraier.c: In function ‘objtocbmap’:
estraier.c:1221: error: ‘struct RArray’ has no member named ‘len’
estraier.c:1227: error: ‘struct RString’ has no member named ‘ptr’
estraier.c:1227: error: ‘struct RString’ has no member named ‘len’
estraier.c:1228: error: ‘struct RString’ has no member named ‘ptr’
estraier.c:1228: error: ‘struct RString’ has no member named ‘len’
make[1]: *** [estraier.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hinmanm/hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

This error comes from a not-so-great practice of using RSTRING(foo)->len and RARRAY(bar)->ptr in the code, which was removed in Ruby 1.9.1. The correct way to fix this is to make these changes:

RSTRING(foo)->len and RSTRING(foo)->ptr
becomes:
RSTRING_LEN(foo) and RSTRING_PTR(foo)

RARRAY(bar)->len and RARRAY(bar)->ptr
becomes:
RARRAY_LEN(bar) and RARRAY_PTR(bar)

For HyperEstraier, this is a pretty quick fix, there’s a link to the patch at the bottom of this post, after downloading, simply do:

[4:hinmanm@dagger:~]% cd hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative/src
[4:hinmanm@dagger:~/hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative/src]% patch < ~/hyperestraier-ruby191.patch
patching file estraier.c
[4:hinmanm@dagger:~/hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative/src]% cd ../
[4:hinmanm@dagger:~/hyperestraier-1.4.13/rubynative]% ./configure && make && sudo make install

And Hyper Estraier should be installed and ready to use in ruby 1.9.1 RC1! Enjoy!

Download the patch: [hyperestraier-ruby191.patch]

Here’s how to fetch it from source, patch it and build it yourself on OSX (tested on 10.5.3). First we need to check out the source:

shell> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/screen co screen

Next, we need to manually apply the patches from MacPorts (assuming you’ve used MacPorts before). First change into the screen directory and apply the following 3 patches:

shell> cd screen/src
shell> patch < /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/
release/ports/sysutils/screen/files/patch-maxargs
shell> patch < /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/
release/ports/sysutils/screen/files/patch-windowsize
shell> patch < /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/
release/ports/sysutils/screen/files/patch-pty.c

(Each of those should be on one line, I had to split them up to make the wrapping better).

Now, configure using the same method as the macports:

shell> ./configure --enable-locale --enable-telnet --enable-colors256 --enable-rxct_osc

From there, you should be able to do a make and make install to get your screen up and running. Vertical-split is bound to ctrl+a – |  (control-a and pipe) (substitute whatever your bind key is for ctrl+a). Then you can use ctrl+a – :resize <x> to resize the window, where <x> is x%, -x, +x or x. Here’s a screenshot of it in action: