From: I did not <NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T07:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Installation from source (unclear instructions)

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:33:07 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> # 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":

Yep.
# 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/bin/ri18 to /usr/bin/ri (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)

From /usr/bin/ruby-config (dev-ruby/ruby-config-0.3.1)
for i in ruby irb erb testrb rdoc ri ; do
  alternatives_makesym \
  /usr/bin/$i /usr/bin/${i}{$suf,18,16,19}
done

From /usr/portage/dev-ruby/ruby-config/ChangeLog
*ruby-config-0.3.1 (31 Aug 2004)

  31 Aug 2004; Mamoru KOMACHI
  +files/ruby-config-0.3.1.diff, +ruby-config-0.3.1.ebuild:
  Make a symlink to /usr/bin/ri from /usr/bin/ri*


Please check you're using the latest version of ruby-config


Hth