In his post Matthias Georgi showed how to view RI in a web browser. He’s using Apache, so I rolled out a couple of snippets for lighttpd users.
First I added a host to my /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 ri
And created a virtual host in my lighttpd.conf
$HTTP["host"] =~ "ri" { server.document-root = "/my/projects/path/ri/" cgi.assign = ( ".rb" => "/usr/bin/ruby" ) url.rewrite-once = ( "^(.*)$" => "ri.rb?$0" ) }
Since lighttpd has a diffrent way of handling mod_cgi request parameters Matthias’es script needed a little adjusting:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'rdoc/ri/ri_driver' require 'rubygems' print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n" ARGV << ENV["QUERY_STRING"].sub("/", "") << '-f' << 'html' << ri = RiDriver.new print '<html><body style="width:600px; margin:auto; padding:20px"><pre>' ri.process_args print '</body></html>'
Restart your lighttpd, browse to http://ri/String.capitalize. That’s it!
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