From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T04:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ri question

On Sep 7, 2004, at 12:38 PM, James Britt wrote:

> Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> How do you redefine your search in the following instance?
>> $ ri File#path
>> More than one method matched your request. You can refine
>> your search by asking for information on one of:
>>      File#path, FileUtils#mkpath, File#path
>
> I've seen this sort of duplication on one of my Windows boxes where 
> I've a history of installing/unintalling/reinstalling Ruby via the 
> 1-click.
>
> Look and to see if you have duplicate ri data sets in 
> share/ri/1.8/site/ and share/ri/1.8/system/
>
> Note that some data files may have the same name, but if they do they 
> should have different parent directories.
>
> You should have, for example,
>   share/ri/1.8/site/File/path-i.yaml
>
> if File/path-i.yaml shows up someplace else as well, then ri gets 
> confused.
>
Thanks!  That worked.
Looks like I had some old files in ~/.rdoc
-Charlie

> James
>
>