# WebRI v0.1.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webri-v0-1-0-released/133734>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 3, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webri-v0-1-0-released/133734 "2008-04-03T01:59:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webri-v0-1-0-released/133734/1 "2008-04-03T01:59:52Z")

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WebRI is Webrick-based RI browser. It makes it fairly convenient to  
browse API documetation in hierachical fashion.

```
http://tigerops.rubyforge.org/webri

```

This is the initial release of WebRI.

I threw this together as a proof of concept, but it turns out to already  
be quite usable. I’ll add missing features and clean it up as time  
permits. Same goes for the website.

Becuase RI itself isn’t very fast, if you use WebRI against the entire  
set of installed Ruby libraries it can take a few seconds to load up. It  
would be nice to use FastRI instead, for speed, but FastRI does not  
support HTML output as of yet.

== CHANGES

=== 0.1.0 / 2008-03-28

- Initial release.
- Shelling out to RI b/c it’s easier than using the RDoc API.
- Not using FastRI b/c no HTML output.

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webri-v0-1-0-released/133734/2 "2008-04-03T09:57:00Z")

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:59 AM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> == CHANGES
> 
> === 0.1.0 / 2008-03-28
> 
> - Initial release.
> - Shelling out to RI b/c it’s easier than using the RDoc API.
> - Not using FastRI b/c no HTML output.

Got a problem when running webri on the bacon source.

In the constants section:  
“0.9"Hash.new(0)”"Hash.new { |\_, name| raise NameError, “no such  
context: #{name.inspect}”// unless defined? RestrictName// unless  
defined? RestrictContext

^ manveru

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webri-v0-1-0-released/133734/3 "2008-04-03T14:30:07Z")

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On Apr 3, 3:56 am, “Michael F.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> In the constants section:  
> “0.9"Hash.new(0)”"Hash.new { |\_, name| raise NameError, “no such  
> context: #{name.inspect}”// unless defined? RestrictName// unless  
> defined? RestrictContext

I’ve noticed constants aren’t being displayed right in general. In the  
cases I’ve seen the name of constant just doesn’t appear, alhtough  
it’s description does. I’ll look into it and see what’s what.

Thanks,  
T.