IHelp 0.3.2 - View the documentation for an object

IHelp lets you view the ri documentation of an object from Ruby.
Perfect for irb.

sudo gem install ihelp

Downloads: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2597
Documentation: http://ihelp.rubyforge.org
Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/ihelp/

CHANGES

Now with Ruby 1.8.5 compatability fixes and an emacs renderer from
rubikitch.

QUICK USAGE

“Hmm, how did String#center work again?”

String.help:center

“What is this object and what can i do with it?”

object.help

“Someone told me that I should look up Mutex#synchronize…
but I don’t have that loaded.”

help “Mutex#synchronize”

LOADING AUTOMATICALLY IN IRB

Add the following to your .irbrc:

Loading RI may take a second or two so let’s make it

snappier by loading in the background.

Thread.new do require ‘ihelp’ end

Renderer to use, one of ‘ri’, ‘rubydoc’, ‘emacs’, ‘source’, ‘html’

default is ‘ri’

IHelp.renderer = ‘rubydoc’

Web browser to use with renderers ‘rubydoc’ and ‘html’

default is ‘firefox’

IHelp.web_browser = ‘konqueror’