From: I did not <NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T04:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Installation from source (unclear instructions)

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:44:51 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> It's been a long time since I tried to install Ruby from source, but my 
> distribution of choice (gentoo) doesn't seem to have up-to-date 'ri' 
> packages, I thought I'd try the source install.

basil ruby-1.8.2 $ emerge -p ruby

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2_pre2

basil ruby-1.8.2 $ ri -v
ri: beta1 (1.2.2.8 2004/04/02)


I thought ri had been included in the ruby distribution.
Maybe you should remove your ri package and possibly emerge ruby again?

Hth