[ANN] "Reverse" help lookup a la railsapi.com

[Steve Davis]

This is excellent -

- one minor point -- erlang modules comprise "functions" not
"methods"! ;)

/sd


On Aug 8, 5:15 am, Dmitrii Dimandt <dmitr...@REDACTED> wrote:
> http://erlapi.prepor.ru/docs/
>
> Have you ever worked through somebody else's code and wondered what  
> this or that function does? Thi is especially true when you're looking  
> at source code for a well-known project in search for tips on how to  
> solve certain problems.
>
> What does c:nc/2 do? What options does inet:setopts/2 accept? And so on.
>
> Andrew Rudenko [1] on the erlang-russian [2] mailing list decided to  
> solve this problem.
>
> Getting his inspiration from the Rails API site [3], he made an analog  
> for Erlang:http://erlapi.prepor.ru/docs/
>
> You may think "yeah, right, just a pretty doc site" and you'll be  
> wrong. Just try searching for the aforementioned c:nc and inet:setopts  
> functions to get the idea of what this really is.
>
> - Generator (in Ruby) that was used to generate the docs is here:http://github.com/prepor/erlapi/tree
> - You can download generated docs for local viewing here:http://github.com/prepor/erlapi-static/tree/master
>
> [1] Andrew Rudenko:http://prepor.ru/
>
> [2] erlang-russian mailing list:http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-russian/
>
> [3] Rails API site:http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.3.1/
>
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