[erlang-questions] Re: [ANN] "Reverse" help lookup a la railsapi.com

[Dmitrii Dimandt]

Good point :) I'll pass it on to the author


On Aug 8, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Steve Davis wrote:

> 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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