From: Jason Foreman <threeve.org@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T22:31:01+09:00
Subject: Re: ri in irb

On 4/27/05, Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> From p.191 of the pickaxe2 book, I put the following into my irb.rc file.
> 
> def ri(*names)
> system(%{ri #{names.map {|name| name.to_s}.join(" ")}})
> end
> 
> However, when I open an irb session and type, say,
> 
> ri Proc
> 
> I do not get the documentation I'm seeking, just a return =>false.
> 
> "ri Proc" works fine for me from a command line. Can anyone suggest what
> might be wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Brian
> ruby 1.8.2, Windows XP
> 
> 

On windows it needs to be ri.bat, just like you should use irb.bat


Jason