From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T18:41:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Perldoc Equivalent?

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 09:43:19AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> >In general, you can run 'ri' at the command line, along with the name 
> >of a class, module, or method, (and combinations) and see 
> >documentation
> 
> This sounds exactly like what I'm looking for, but when I tried it...
> 
> % ri String
> No ri documentation found in:
>      /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system
>      /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/site
>      /Users/james/.rdoc
> 
> Was rdoc run to create documentation?

Many people have a hard time generating the documentation from the
sources -- it takes a long time, rdoc often dies in the process (after
processing for several minutes) and you have to download the sources,
etc...

I thought some of them would benefit from a packaged version of ri/rdoc's
runtime plus pre-generated RI data files. If you have rpa-base installed
just
  rpa install ri-rpa
will get the RPAfied ri with all the needed documentation.
Additionally, ri-rpa provides ri integration for other libraries
installed through rpa-base, as shown in
http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?Rpa_Base_In_Action/Ri_Integration

You can find more information about rpa-base at
http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/
and download it from there if you want.

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