stJhimy - Rails 3, Ruby and JQuery documentation into Mac OS Dictionary

[Mario Aquino]

http://www.stjhimy.com/posts/15-rails-3-ruby-and-jquery-documentation-into-mac-os-dictionary

[Don Ellis]

Interesting. First question I had was whether it was into the Apple Scripting Dictionary (no, it isn't).

Now, I'm wondering why it doesn't go into the /Library/Documentation/ folder? A number of other services place documentation there (hence the name) and it would seem more logical than placing it with the spelling dictionaries.

Or maybe in the /Library/Ruby/ directory tree, like /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/doc/ ?

--Don Ellis

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Mario Aquino <mario.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.stjhimy.com/posts/15-rails-3-ruby-and-jquery-documentation-into-mac-os-dictionary

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[Mario Aquino]

On OSX, the Dictionary is a utility for looking up words that appear in any text; to use it, you just put the cursor over a word and hit a keyboard shortcut and see the Dictionary app popup with the word you had your cursor over and its dictionary definition displayed below (that's what the screenshots show). There is also a Thesaurus. The dictionaries for Ruby, Rails, jQuery and others let you use the dictionary app to lookup API docs for code you may be looking at in your editor.  So, the reason you would add these files into the dictionary folder is because these files are setup in the format that the OSX Dictionary app reads. 

--Mario

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[Don Ellis]

Aha! Sounds extremely useful.

Also, multiple definitions for the same word.

When you use the File:Open Dictionary... selection in the AppleScript editor, applied to a scriptable application, you see the scripting commands and their syntax for that application (or, you can drop the application on the Script Editor and get the same listing). Essentially, you get the AppleScript API for the application. Very similar.

--Don Ellis