From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2004-12-19T06:06:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ri question


On Dec 18, 2004, at 14:32, James Britt wrote:

>>> Where does ri look for its docs? ri -help says "the standard rdoc/ri
>>> directories".

You can find our where documentation is searched for on your system 
with the command

% ruby -r rdoc/ri/ri_paths -e 'p RI::Paths::PATH'

This doesn't list every directory searched--just those that exist.

By default, ri looks in

   # system:: $datadir/ri/<ver>/system/...
   # site::   $datadir/ri/<ver>/site/...
   # user::   ~/.rdoc

where datadir is defined by the Ruby configuration.

> But will ri find any ri data files in the gems directory?

No, because it doesn't know about them. You might have 50 Gems 
installed, some with multiple versions.

The Gems and RPA folks were supposed to be coming up with some j=kind 
of joint standard to allow ri to find these additional directories, but 
that seems to have gone quiet.


Cheers

Dave