From: Zakaria <zakaria@...>
Date: 2004-06-12T02:51:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ri not work in Ruby Installer for Windows

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:54:02PM +0900, James Britt wrote:
> Zakaria wrote:
> >I just installed ruby181-13.exe from rubyforge.net . It works great
> >with one exception, I couldn't get ri to work :(
> >when I do ri Hash all I get is File not found.
 
 
> There have been problems getting the ri data files packaged with the 
> installer.
 
> See:
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/index.rb/2004/Apr/23#Ruby1.8.1.RiDataFiles

> which explain s how to get these files.

Well, I follow the instruction but still doesn't work.
So I renamed things back to the original, rdoc work just fine. 

Here some excerpt. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\ruby\bin>ri Hash
File not found

C:\ruby\bin>ri blah
Nothing known about blah

C:\ruby\bin>dir /b|more

erb
erb.bat
irb
irb.bat
libexpat.dll
libexpatw.dll
msvcr71.dll
msvcrt-ruby18.dll
proxyserver.rb
ri
rdoc.bat
ri.bat
ruby.exe
rubyw.exe
sqlsh.rb
testrb
testrb.bat
msvcrt.dll
tcl83.dll
tclpip83.dll
tclsh83.exe
tk83.dll
wish83.exe
glut32.dll
glut32.lib
rdoc

C:\ruby\bin>type ri.bat
@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\ri" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

C:\ruby\bin>type rdoc.bat
@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\rdoc" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
-------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm using ruby181-13.exe on Windows Me.
Any other fix?

> James

Wassallam,


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