Pry Doc

pry-doc

Description

Pry Doc is a plugin for Pry. It provides extended documentation support for Pry.

Installation

Install the gem using the below command.

gem install pry-doc

To automatically load pry-doc upon starting pry, add the command require 'pry-doc' to your pryrc. You can read more about it in Pry's README file.

Synopsis

Pry Doc extends two core Pry commands: show-doc and show-source (aliased as ? and $ respectively).

For example, in vanilla Pry it’s impossible to get the documentation for the loop method (it’s a method, by the way). However, Pry Doc solves that problem.

show-source

Let's check the source code of the loop method.

show-doc

Generally speaking, you can retrieve most of the MRI documentation and accompanying source code. Pry Doc is also smart enough to get any documentation for methods and classes implemented in C.

Limitations

Pry Doc supports Ruby 2.0 and above.

Getting Help

Simply file an issue or visit #pry at irc.freenode.net.

License

The project uses the MIT License. See LICENSE file for more information.