rbbr - Ruby Browser

rbbr is an application to browse modules/classes hierarchy and their constants and methods.

• Main Window - rbbr.jpg
• Stock Item and Icon Browser - rbbr_stock.jpg

See <URL:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614>

• ruby 1.8.x, 1.9.x
• Ruby/GTK2 0.9.1(older versions can't work this rbbr)
• (option) Ruby-GNOME2 API Documents in RD+<URL:http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/data/ruby-gnome2-api.tar.gz>. The rbbr-withapi package includes them.
• (option) ri 0.8a <URL:http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=ri>.
  • On ruby-1.8.x or later, you don't need to install this.
• (option) ReFe 0.8.0 or later (Japanese only) <URL:http://www.loveruby.net/en/refe.html>
• (option) Ruby-GetText-Package 0.5.5 or later for L10n menus/labels<URL:http://ponx.s5.xrea.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html>
  • Ruby-GetText-Package 0.5.4 has a bug. You need the latest version of this.
  • Also you need Racc-1.4.3 or later to install this package. <URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=racc>

1. Install Racc, Ruby-GetText-Package, ri, ReFe. (Optional)
2. De-Compress ruby-gnome2-api.tar.gz(Optional) and rbbr's archive
3. Copy ruby-gnome2-api/* to (rbbr's top directory)/data/rbbr/rd/*(Optional)
4. Go to rbbr's top directory and type:

$ ruby install.rb config
$ ruby install.rb setup
($ su)
$ ruby install.rb install

You can also install files in your favorite directory by supplying install.rb some options. Try "ruby install.rb --help".

You can get the newest(nightly) archive from:

<URL:http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/data/ruby-gnome2-api.tar.gz>

And you can use it to overwrite the old data which was installed in (shared-data-dir)/rbbr/rd/.

Runs rbbr

Linux, *BSD, Cygwin

Run the following command:

$ rbbr

MS Windows(except Cygwin)

(Double or Single)Click ruby-install-dir\bin\rbbr.rbw from Explorer.

If you get an error of ri/rdoc, you need to make document files for ri.

$ rdoc --ri

Run "rdoc --help" for more details.

How to find classes/modules

Basic Search

Enter "gtk::widget" to the search text box and click "Search" button. Then you can find Gtk::Widget, Gtk::Widget::Flags, Gtk::Widget::HelpType, .....

Cases are ignored.

Regular expressions

You can use regular expressions as the search words. For example, you want to find "Gtk::Widget" only, enter "Gtk::Widget$" to the text box.

Method Search

You can find a class/module with a method. e.g.) "Gtk.main", "Gtk main" "Gtk#main" #=> Find Gtk.main

This program is free software. You can distribute/modify this program under the terms of the Ruby Distribute License.