December 29, 2008

Viewing RI in a web browser

I’m a big fan of the Firefox keyword search. For example I have keywords for LEO, Wikipedia and Man pages. Sometimes I want to look up API documentation in Ruby and typing ri camelize into the address bar and viewing the documentation as web page seems to be quite natural for me. So I wrote a quick and dirty cgi, which calls RI and outputs HTML.

May 10, 2007

Google-like Search Results Helper

Representing your search results in a user-friendly way is a common task among web developers. Google’s approach is dead simple but really effective. The matching text is highlighted and shown with its context. This can be implemented in less than 20 lines of code which you can include into you helper:

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