From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2005-08-24T06:09:53+09:00
Subject: Re: ri - what does it know?

On 8/23/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2005, at 13:24, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> 
> > It's unclear to me what I can expect ri to know about. Does this
> > differ depending on whether I used the one-click installer or built
> > from source? Should ri know about every built-in class/module? Should
> > ri know about anything in the standard library? When I install
> > something new, do the installers typically add documentation that is
> > accessible to ri?
> 
> ri should know about just about everything in the core.  It should
> know about all extensions mentioned in ext/.document, and all
> standard library classes/modules mentioned in lib/.document in the
> source.

It doesn't seem to know about everything in the standard library. For
example, all of the following result in "Nothing know about ...".

ri webrick
ri WEBrick
ri HTTPServlet

> Currently, rubygems does not generate ri information.  It is
> commented out.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.