I'm trying to force myself to use qri instead of searching google for 'ruby array' when I need to lookup documentation on a class. qri is much faster than ri and provides colored output. The unfortunate part about qri is that, as far as I can tell, you need to rebuild the fastri index each time you add RI documentation(i.e., install a new gem). So here's a function you can throw in your .bashrc

# $ sudo gem install fastri

# $ fastri-server --rebuild-index

# $ qri Array

function gemri() { sudo gem install "$@"; fastri-server --rebuild-index; }

The next step would be to provide a bash completion file for qri. I am so used to typing to letters then tabbing my to success. Tab and Esc are my WIN buttons.

Twitter has always seemed to resemble IRC to me, at least in the way I want to use it. So since I signed up I've wanted twitter to be in my terminal on a screen. Here's how I didwant to do it:

$ sudo gem install twitter

Inside of a screen session:

$ screen -t twitter
$ watch --differences --interval=300 twitter timeline --force
or
$ watch -d -n 300 twitter timeline -f

So the problem is this doesn't work. The highline gem seems have problems with the output stream that watch creates.

UPDATE: Works on Terminal.app with macports' watch.