# Speeding up ri **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speeding-up-ri/70782 "2006-10-02T22:13:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speeding-up-ri/70782/1 "2006-10-02T22:13:57Z")
On my machine (3GHz P4, 1GB RAM, Windows and other apps running) I just opened up a command prompt and typed “ri ERB”. Then I realized that ri has become heinously slow since I upgraded to 1.8.5. So I opened a browser window. I typed in [RDoc Documentation](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib). I let the browser load the frameset and pages. I clicked on ERB in the left side. I let the browser load the new frameset and pages. I clicked on the ERB.new method. I got to the page I want. … and I STILL beat the output of ri in the command window by 5 seconds or so. Is this normal? Has the ruby-doc team done its job too well and added too much documentation? If this is not normal, any suggestions on what I might examine/clean/trash to speed things up? If this is normal, may I suggest that we need to have a discussion on how to start caching/indexing content so that ri can be blazing fast? ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speeding-up-ri/70782/2 "2006-10-15T07:51:41Z")
On Oct 2, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Gavin K. wrote: > I let the browser load the new frameset and pages. > examine/clean/trash to speed things up? > This seems to be normal, ri is searching a larger file set now. > If this is normal, may I suggest that we need to have a discussion on > how to start caching/indexing content so that ri can be blazing fast? I believe ri scans each .yml file for matching information. An index would probably be a nice way to speed it up. – Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net) This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant [http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com) ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speeding-up-ri/70782/3 "2006-10-15T09:21:43Z")
Eric H. wrote: > > I clicked on ERB in the left side. > > examine/clean/trash to speed things up? > > This seems to be normal, ri is searching a larger file set now. > > > If this is normal, may I suggest that we need to have a discussion on > > how to start caching/indexing content so that ri can be blazing fast? > > I believe ri scans each .yml file for matching information. An index > would probably be a nice way to speed it up. Hmmm … could ferret do this? ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 10:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speeding-up-ri/70782/4 "2006-10-15T10:55:51Z")
On Oct 15, 2006, at 12:20 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Hmmm … could ferret do this? > That would be using a sledgehammer to solve a problem you could fix > with a tap of your palm. ri “search” is quite dumb. It only matches against classes, modules and methods. (Also, ri\_cache.rb already exists. It probably only needs to be serialized and updated when new documentation arrives (from gems).) – Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net) This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant [http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com) ---
**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speeding-up-ri/70782/5 "2006-10-15T19:46:54Z")
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:49:34 +0900, Eric H. wrote: > > left side. > > examine/clean/trash to speed things up? > > This seems to be normal, ri is searching a larger file set now. > > > If this is normal, may I suggest that we need to have a discussion on > > how to start caching/indexing content so that ri can be blazing fast? > > I believe ri scans each .yml file for matching information. An index > would probably be a nice way to speed it up. Or use emacs, ri-emacs just reads the information once.