[ANN] centralized rubygems rdocs site

[Roger Pack]

I am pleased to announce the release of my site that has the rdocs for
[almost] all existing rubygems.

Why?

Because it's convenient to have all rdocs installed in a single place to
be able to browse/search them. Because it's a central repository, too,
it eliminates the need to install local rdocs for gems, which (when you
turn it off) means you install local gems *much* more quickly. It makes
me happy every time I do a "gem install"
It also eliminates the need for running a local gem server.

Benefits:

These gems' rdocs use the hanna theme, which provides for method search
and an easy on the eyes layout. Though darkfish is also quite pretty, it
isn't as easy to read because of font contrast.

Check it out!

http://allgems.faithpromotingstories.org/gems

core docs: http://coredocs.faithpromotingstories.org/

Note also that they're using a temporarily subdomain url. If anybody is
interested and could help me with a subdomain of a more ruby related url
that would be cool. I hate to fork over that $10 a year for another
domain you know me

Feedback welcome.
Enjoy.
=r

 

[James Britt]

I am pleased to announce the release of my site that has the rdocs for
[almost] all existing rubygems.

How much disk space does this take?

How do you know you have (almost) all gems?

Are you grabbing from rubyforge and github?


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[Andreas S.]

I am pleased to announce the release of my site that has the rdocs for
[almost] all existing rubygems.

Good idea, I always hated googling for gem rdocs all over the web, and
finding mostly outdated versions. I assume you have some automation in
place to rebuild the docs when new gems are released?

Note also that they're using a temporarily subdomain url. If anybody is
interested and could help me with a subdomain of a more ruby related url
that would be cool.

I could offer you some ruby-forum.com subdomains, if you think that's an
improvement. Just tell me what you need and what IP to point it to.

Andreas

 

[Roger Pack]

How much disk space does this take?

lemme check

...mbari_gembox_187$ du -h . --max-depth=1
7.9G ./lib

+100MB for the core docs, I guess.

This just fits in my linode (along with a few other rails sites).

/dev/xvda 16G 13G 3.2G 80% /

Are you grabbing from rubyforge and github?

Currently that's just for the rubyforge gems--starting small here
[though it should be easy to include github--I just wanted to get
started ASAP]

I assume you have some automation in place to rebuild the docs when new gems are released?

Currently I only have "the install all script" but I intend on creating
the "update all" script soon [these scripts are like 10 lines each it
shouldn't be too bad--I'll note that it's a 10 line script that took
like a day straight of cpu to generate all the rdoc's ].

a subdomain of ruby-forum.com has potential. Oh and thanks for
ruby-forum BTW. I have no idea why google groups doesn't let you
subscribe to threads, but at least ruby-forum does.

-=r