[ruby-talk:11525] Re: ANN: ri - the Ruby Interactive reference

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:15:06 GMT, [e-mail] (Harry
Ohlsen) wrote:

>On 25 Feb 2001 02:45:14 -0500, Jonathan Feinberg <[e-mail]>
>wrote:
>
>>Thank you!  Unfortunately, the distro as it currently stands is
>>partially Windows-hostile, as Windows files cannot have colons in
>>their names.  However, it works just fine except for the colon-laden
>>info files.  I did also create a file "ri" which itself invokes
>>"ri.rb", to save myself a few keystrokes. :)  
>
>The classes with embedded colons don't seem to work for me on Redhat
>Linux 7.0, either.  It seems to think "File::Stat" refers to a "Stat"
>method of "File".

I changed the main code in "ri.rb" to the following and it now seems
to handle these cases (I've left the original lines as comments, so
you can see what I changed)

Of course, YMMV ...
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# With no parameters, list know classes and modules 
                                                    
if ARGV.size.zero?                                  
  usage                                             
  exit                                              
end                                                 
                                                    
ARGV.each do |name|                                 
                                                    
  case name                                         
                                                    
  #when /^[A-Z]\w*$/                                
  when /^[A-Z][\w:]*$/                              
    describeClass(name)                             
                                                    
  #when /^([A-Z]\w*)(\.|\#|::)(.+)/                 
  when /^([A-Z][\w:]*)(\.|\#)(.+)/                  
    describeMethod($1, $2, $3)                      
                                                    
  else                                              
    findAndDescribe(name)                           
                                                    
  end