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by wasd 4366 days ago
One of the co-founders of Sourcegraph came to UC Berkeley and spoke at entrepreneurship event. He was very engaged and gave lots of real practical advice.

I've tried Sourcegraph and think it solves a real pain point but I have had problems integrating it into my workflow. I'm not sure when I should be using it. I've been meaning to use it to read more open source code code but it seems like they recently disabled support for Ruby.

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We've got all of the documentation (and source code) for all versions of Ruby, and all versions of all Ruby gems over at Omniref: http://www.omniref.com

Some examples:

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/symbols/Enumerable/sort_b...

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/sass/3.3.8

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.2/symbols/MiniTest

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/activerecord/4.1.1/symbols...

You can even build custom search engines for your project by uploading your project's Gemfile.

Yeah, Omniref is really cool. We're going to release our Ruby analyzer soon as a standalone open-source tool. If you are interested in using it to get semantically annotated code on Omniref, let me know (we'd prioritize Ruby over some of the other language analyzers we are also going to release).
I'm doing it almost the same way!

http://rubycodesearch.com/

I'm glad you found my talk and that panel useful!

We will have Ruby support back in soon, hopefully this week. I'll email you when it's in to get your feedback.

As for integrating it into your workflow, the new improvements we pushed today make it much faster and easier to use Sourcegraph to find docs and examples. In a lot of cases, Sourcegraph will give you the docs or examples you want faster than a Google search. (And often Sourcegraph , because it actually analyzes code, will have examples that you can't find anywhere else.)

But we still have a lot of work to do, and it'd be great to hear your feedback on when Sourcegraph works well for you and when it doesn't.

Wasn't there a sublime plugin for sourcegraph?
Yes, it was for Ruby, and we will reenable it once Ruby support is back in. Sorry for the disruption.