Ruby documentation letterifier

By Lachie Cox Last update May 10, 2007 — Installed 365 times.


Script Summary: Splits into letters long lists of classes and methods in standard ruby doc generated html.

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I'm shortsighted. I turn the fonts up to 11. I invest in large, expensive LCD screens.

So after a long time of squinting at http://api.rubyonrails.org, fumbling for the tiny scrollbar to find my favourite method (who knew writing lots of code could harm the ergonomy?), I finally snapped and wrote a Greasemonkey user script to help me out.

* works for the old-skool rdoc template (eg. http://ruby-doc.org/core) as well as Jamis'.
* has special support for http://api.rubyonrails.org Act* classes.
* is pretty flexible for the upgrading and improving.

- I've only tried it on Firefox 1.5. Perhaps I'll have a look at getting it going on Creammonkey (which I first heard of yesterday :)