I'm just getting into Ruby - one of the things I'm having a little trouble letting go of is Intellisense / code completion, so if I don't have that I really need to have the API close to hand at all times. I made the discovery last week of:
gem server
which starts a server which lets you check out the documentation for all of your installed gems. Is there an equivalent to this which allows you to browse the standard libraries instead of the gems?
Using Linux/Ruby 1.8.7.
In your terminal, you can use ri
to print specific parts of the documentation. (Note that if you're using RVM to manage your ruby installation(s), you may need to run rvm docs generate
to avoid getting "Nothing known about...." responses)
For example:
> ri Array#drop
would output:
------------------------------------------------------------- Array#drop
ary.drop(n) => array
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Drops first n elements from _ary_, and returns rest elements in an
array.
a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0]
a.drop(3) # => [4, 5, 0]