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Tim & I are planning to spend quite a bit more time on this, what do you other devs want to see in documentation search? Full stack? Multi version? Comments? Examples? IDE integration? What would make your life better?

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Enumerate options that are obscured by inheritance. For example, to look at:

http://www.omniref.com/?q=cache_action

I don't know what options are valid in `cache_action`. The "real" answer, AFAICT, is to keep walking up the source code until you find the AbstractWhatever that actually defines the options.

Yeah, rails makes this as hard as possible to figure out, because everything is done dynamically by Hash arguments. Maybe we can do something like like link up the inheritance tree from the method?

Some feedback I have, is that I would like the sidebar to have a view that was less 'cluttered'. I know what String#new does, so could I just view all the methods available - sans description? Like how ruby-doc does it, super fast to spot what I need to lookup and click it.

Another is that the sidebar seems to take up a fair bit of space (especially as I use a half-sized browser window).

I really want to see this flourish, it seems a lot faster than searching ruby-doc! Keep at it, guys! :)

Thanks! Is this more like what you're looking for?

http://www.omniref.com/docs/ruby/stdlib/2.0.0-p247/classes/A...

We're still working out how to display the search results, but we definitely want to strip them down more. Thanks for the feedback.

Yep, that's it. Would love to just click the one from the results, then have that view. But if I have to then click the name on the right, that's fine too.

We're working on that right now, actually. We weren't sure that people would want it, though, so that's good feedback. ;-)

That looks perfect, would definitely be appreciated.

I would like to have code examples in many libraries. But I'm not sure how you could achieve this... Maybe linking stackoverflow related posts in some way.

This is on the feature short-list. We actually had it in there early on, but we weren't happy with the quality, so we pulled it.

We're going to re-try with a different approach that we think will work better. It's definitely going to happen.

It would also be nice to use chrome's "tab to search" feature so I can just type: "omniref" [TAB] [query]

This!

It would be awesome if I could upload (or just post) my Gemfile to your site and be able to search only the gems I am using.

I've wanted this since the beginning, so this is coming soon. ;-)

awesome! I cannot wait! :D sign me up for any beta action you got :P

Heh. We skimped a bit on the "beta" invite thing. Send me an email (addr is on my profile) and I'll let you know when it's ready.

Load the rdoc for all of rubygems/github into it. Like rdoc.info et al

We already have all of the documentation for all of the current ruby gems, plus the ruby standard library. We don't yet have all versions of everything, but that's coming soon.

AFAIK, we're already more comprehensive than the existing sites, though.

Ah. It seems that for some reason I searched by the gem name, which obviously came up with nothing.

Hm. You searched for rails, or something else?

http://www.omniref.com/?q=rails

Let us know if there's a bug.

http://www.omniref.com/?q=fuzzy_match

doesnt take me to http://rubygems.org/gems/fuzzy_match

comments for sure. Could be as simple as disqus on endpoints like the angular docs.

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