From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T06:33:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Installation from source (unclear instructions)

I did not wrote:
> ls -ls /usr/bin/ri
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Sep  1 12:03 /usr/bin/ri -> ri18
> 
> IIRC, the link is created by ruby-config which allows ruby16, ruby18 and
> ruby19 to be installed on the same box.
> 
> Can you try to 
> # emerge ruby-config and run 
> # ruby-config ruby18

# ls -l /usr/bin/ri
ls: /usr/bin/ri: No such file or directory
# ruby-config ruby18
  * Linking /usr/bin/ruby18 to /usr/bin/ruby (relative)
  * Linking /usr/bin/irb18 to /usr/bin/irb (relative)
  * Linking /usr/bin/erb18 to /usr/bin/erb (relative)
  * Linking /usr/bin/testrb18 to /usr/bin/testrb (relative)
  * Linking /usr/bin/rdoc18 to /usr/bin/rdoc (relative)
  * Linking /usr/lib/libruby18.so to /usr/lib/libruby.so (relative)
  * Linking /usr/share/man/man1/ruby18.1.gz to 
/usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz (relative)

Still no 'ri'

Are you sure you didn't install RI in a different package?  Here are my 
packages containing "ruby":

# qpkg -I |grep ruby
app-emacs/ruby-mode *
app-xemacs/ruby-modes *
dev-lang/ruby *
dev-ruby/ruby-config *
dev-ruby/ruby-opengl *

Ben