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Easily find and view Ruby standard library source code
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
# vsrcrb.rb by Ryan Kulla (http://rkulla.com). | |
# Note that it only works on a *nix OS (OSX, Linux, etc). Not Windows. | |
# Command-line program to output standard library module source | |
# Install: $ mkdir ~/bin ; mv -i vsrcrb.rb ~/bin/vsrcrb ; chmod u+x ~/bin/vsrcrb | |
# Usage: $ vsrcrb <module-name-without-extension> | |
# Example: View socket.rb's source code: $ vsrcrb socket | less | |
# To view a gem's src: $ less $(gem which <gem>) | |
def get_source_paths(target_file) | |
$LOAD_PATH.each do |dir_path| | |
Dir.chdir(dir_path) do | |
file_path = %x[#{"find `pwd` -iname #{target_file}.rb"}] | |
return file_path.split unless file_path == '' | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
def view_source(file_path) | |
File.foreach(file_path.chomp) do |line| | |
puts line | |
end | |
end | |
if $0 == __FILE__ | |
found_paths = get_source_paths(ARGV[0]) | |
puts 'Found:' | |
puts found_paths | |
puts | |
shortest_path = found_paths.min_by(&:length) | |
puts "Opening: #{shortest_path}\n\n" | |
40.times { print '=' } | |
puts | |
view_source(shortest_path) | |
end |
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