[ANN] magic/help 0.20061226.1123 released

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

I've just released new version of magic/help - plugin for irb
providing more intuitive
documentation access by heavy use of reflection.

magic/help lets you ask for methods located anywhere in the class hierarchy:

help "File.sync=" # returns documentation for IO#sync=

or even ask for help on arbitrary objects:

help { some_file_obj.sync = true }
help some_file_obj.methodsync=)

Changes in the release include:
* Correct handling of all cases where documentation and reflection mismatched,
including Kernel# vs Object# (where methods were declared and where
documentation
claimed they were declared frequently mismatched), SomeClass.new (most classes
do not override Class.new, but still provide documentation).
* Improvements in handling private methods, methods from modules,
unloaded methods
from loaded classes (like Time without time.rb), and many more
* A gem for the library

Full release notes for the new version:
* http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2006/12/magichelp-update.html
The original post announcing magic/help:
* http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2006/11/magichelp-for-ruby.html

For simply downloading the gem:
* http://zabor.org/taw/magic_help/magic_help-0.20061226.1123.gem

By the way, what should I do to get my gems onto default gem repository ?

 

[Andre Nathan]

I've just released new version of magic/help - plugin for irb
providing more intuitive
documentation access by heavy use of reflection.

Nice

By the way, what should I do to get my gems onto default gem repository ?

Create a project at rubyforge and upload the files there.

Andre

 

[Ryan Davis]

On Dec 26, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

Nice project!! Too bad I won't use it until it is a full fledged gem.

For simply downloading the gem:
* http://zabor.org/taw/magic_help/magic_help-0.20061226.1123.gem

By the way, what should I do to get my gems onto default gem
repository ?

Yes, as Andre pointed out. Create a project on rubyforge. This is the
easiest way and there are a lot of benefits:

+ bug tracker (this is probably the most important imo).
+ mailing lists.
+ cvs/svn hosting if you are so inclined. (our projects use perforce
and mirror to svn)
+ public announcements with RSS feeds.
+ web space for your doco.
+ wiki full of spam
+ people can find your stuff since it is the first place to go to
find ruby related things.

 

[Tom Copeland]

+ wiki full of spam

Sad but true! But at least now if the Wiki isn't selected it doesn't
get created and spammed...

Speaking of which, if anyone has a RubyForge project and you've enabled
but are no longer using a Wiki, please go into the project admin pages
and disable it. You will reduce the entropy of the universe!

Thanks,

Tom