From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-07-02T04:00:21+09:00
Subject: Re: RDoc where are you?

On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:

> I've been trying for well over a month now, and I cannot get access  
> to RDOC.
> Is this some kind of vast Masonic conspiracy eminating out of  
> Downing Street,

<laughs>  I felt like this too, when I was new.

> or am I just dumb as a sack of nails or something?

Surely not.

> gems won't install it,
> and it doesn't run like it's says in pickaxe.  I use both SuSE and  
> Debian,
> and would much prefer to be programming in Ruby, rather than trying  
> to figure
> out how to get all the parts installed all the time.

First, are you aware of http://ruby-doc.org/?  It's the online  
version of the documentation, so you can access it right now.

Second, I build the RDoc files from the source which means that I type:

$ sudo rdoc --ri-system

In the root level directory of Ruby's source.  That builds the docs  
and afterwards, ri should function as expected.

Good luck and welcome!

James Edward Gray II