Rails - Sep 2005 - API definition file

Hi All,

I am working on adding the API into the Dreamweaver "intellisense".
Does
anybody know of a list, text file etc listing all the instance methods,
helpers etc.? I have seen DevBoi addin for Firefox and would imagine that
this was done based on a "list" like that.

Thanks

Raf


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At 1:39 PM -0700 9/23/05, Rafael Szuminski wrote:
>I am working on adding the API into the Dreamweaver
"intellisense".
>Does anybody know of a list, text file etc listing all the instance
>methods, helpers etc.? I have seen DevBoi addin for Firefox and
>would imagine that this was done based on a "list" like that.
I am also interested in this question, but I''m afraid that the data
is not in a readily accessible form.  AFAICT, Rdoc''s API information
is only available as HTML or as formatted ASCII.  I''d love to know
of a way to get at this information in a program-friendly manner
(e.g., as a YAML file or in a DBMS).

Of course, I''d also like to see Rails get applied to the problem of
automated source documentation...

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Rich Morin wrote:
> At 1:39 PM -0700 9/23/05, Rafael Szuminski wrote:
> 
>> I am working on adding the API into the Dreamweaver
"intellisense".
>> Does anybody know of a list, text file etc listing all the instance
>> methods, helpers etc.? I have seen DevBoi addin for Firefox and
>> would imagine that this was done based on a "list" like that.
> 
> 
> I am also interested in this question, but I''m afraid that the
data
> is not in a readily accessible form.  AFAICT, Rdoc''s API
information
> is only available as HTML or as formatted ASCII.  I''d love to know
> of a way to get at this information in a program-friendly manner
> (e.g., as a YAML file or in a DBMS).
> 
> Of course, I''d also like to see Rails get applied to the problem
of
> automated source documentation...

You could run RDoc on the Rails code using a different output template 
(see the documentation for RDoc::Page at 
http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/doc/ ). It looks as if RDoc is not as 
"pluggable" as JavaDoc - you can only vary the template, rather than 
being able to plug in a "Doclet" - but this should let you generate
XML,
and possibly YAML.

Note that I haven''t tried this - it''s just a suggested
direction.
I''m a bit concerned that the documentation I found is from Dave
Thomas''s
Sourceforge project, which is now inactive, as RDoc has become part of 
the Ruby core. I don''t know where the definitive documentation is to be
found.

regards

   Justin