Accessing FastRI from TextMate

February 2nd, 2007

Firstly, you might want to check out the page for FastRI if you haven’t heard of it. It’s Ruby-RI on crack. Tasty crack.

By now, you’ll probably find this little Textmate command useful. All I need to do now is hit ⌃F, type in the class, method, or combination of the two, hit return and I get the Ruby documentation in seconds.

Here’s the little query input window that pops up:

And then the result window:

And now the command itself:

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require_cmd "${TM_FRI:=qri}" "If you have installed FastRI, then you need to either update \
your <tt>PATH</tt> or set the <tt>TM_FRI</tt> shell variable (e.g. in Preferences / Advanced)"

friOutput=`iconv -f utf-8 -t mac <<END|osascript
  on run argv
          set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"\n","\r"}
    set searchString to ""
    tell application "TextMate"
      display dialog "FastRI Query:" default answer "" buttons {"Search!"} default button 1
    end tell
    set searchString to the text returned of the result
    set friOutput to do shell script "qri --format plain " & searchString
    return friOutput
  end run
END`

echo "<html><head /><body><pre>"$friOutput"<pre></body></html>"
exit_show_html

Huge thanks to Mauricio Fernandez (MFP) for all his work on FastRI!

Posted by Nathan de Vries

2 Responses to “Accessing FastRI from TextMate”

  1. yudi Says:
    January 1st, 2008 at 11:01 AM

    Hi Nathan, I have quoted this page from your blog to my article. The command worked like a charm! Also you might want to add source.ruby and source.ruby.rails.embedded as the command scope.

    the revision 1431 on textmate shows that James have included the fast-ri to ruby-bundle. I supposed to have fast-ri for textmate ready onec I built the index. But the documentation command still shows ri output. Any ideas?

  2. Nathan de Vries Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 11:28 AM

    Hi Yudi,

    I don’t have access to Textmate right now so I can’t test, but from what I can tell, you’ll need to run 

    fastri-server -b
    to get your index ready. The key is then the selection of ‘qri’ instead of ‘ri’, which is done in Ruby.tmbundle/Support/bin/linked_ri.rb. Something must be going wrong for you at that point.

    Hope that helps!

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