From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T06:31:39+09:00
Subject: ri Feature proposal

Hello Group,

what do you think? I think it would make sense to include the file in 
which a function is defined into the ri output. On my debian system with 
a mostly plain vanilla ruby installation ri yields for example:

$ ri Array#abbrev
----------------------------------------------------------- Array#abbrev
      abbrev(pattern = nil)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Calculates the set of unambiguous abbreviations for the strings in
      self. If passed a pattern or a string, only the strings matching
      the pattern or starting with the string are considered.

        %w{ car cone }.abbrev   #=> { "ca" => "car", "car" => "car",
                                      "co" => "cone", "con" => cone",
                                      "cone" => "cone" }

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> %w{car cone}.abbrev
NoMethodError: undefined method `abbrev' for ["car", "cone"]:Array
         from (irb):1

So I deduce that abbrev is declared in some library. But where it is can 
only be found by using grep in the library directory. It would be nice 
to have something like:

   defined in: namespace/xyz.rb

included in the ri output.

Regards,

Brian Schr�der
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