From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T21:05:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Help 0.1: access ri from irb (using the ri library)


On 22.12.2004, at 18:47, Piergiuliano Bossi wrote:

> Newbee question: where should I put help.rb?

Somewhere in your $LOAD_PATH, one of the site_ruby -ones there would be 
the standard place. My fault, sorry about the lack of installer.

If you want to load it automatically in irb, add require 'help' in 
.irbrc (don't know what it is in windows, sorry :I), and if that seems 
to make irb startup take too long, one hack is to change it to 
Thread.new{ require 'help' } (just beware that using #help fails when 
the lib is still loading)


> I have put it in C:\Apps\ruby18\lib\ruby\1.8 (where C:\Apps\ruby18 is 
> ruby home) and it works, but I wonder what other people do, especially 
> considering future upgrade.

What I do is keep a code/-dir with all the little tidbits of code, and 
have it in my RUBYLIB env variable (again, don't know about windows.)

> Btw, nice job! :-)

Thanks! :-)