From: Jean-Charles Carelli <jnchrls@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T03:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ri, rdoc, OS 10.4

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Thanks Logan, it worked perfectly.

Who would have thought being in the right directory would help ? LOL

One thing: when I used the command you suggested below, I got an error:

pwrBook: ~: jnchrls-> ruby -e 'puts Config::CONFIG["libdir"]'
-e:1: uninitialized constant Config (NameError)

I found the 1.8 dir manually instead.  Is the error a typo or  
something I should worry about?

Thanks again for the help.

J-C


On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:
You need to run rdoc in the directory with the ruby files. For the  
core / stdlib etc. this is usually done when installing. I don't know  
how terrible it would be to go do it now on an installed ruby but you  
can try. Just cd to the directory with the ruby libs.

to do that find out the lib dir:

ruby -e 'puts Config::CONFIG["libdir"]'
You'll wnat to cd to the result of that command and then cd into the  
directory 1.8
then you can attempt to run rdoc. Good luck

On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Logan Capaldo wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Jean-Charles Carelli wrote:
>
>>  I recently follow the excellent tutorial at  the HiveLogic site  
>> on installing Ruby on OS 10.4.  http://hivelogic.com/articles/ 
>> 2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
>>
>> My Problem: is with ri and rdoc:
>>
>> When I first tried running ri, I got an error message saying ri /  
>> rdoc were not installed and to contact the distributor of the  
>> binary used to install ruby or if ruby had been manually  
>> installed, to run make again with directives to install rdoc.  I  
>> did the latter.  Now when I run ri, I get this error:
>>
>> Before using ri, you need to generate documentation
>> using 'rdoc' with the --ri option
>>
>>
>> I've tried running rdoc with any and all options.  The result is a  
>> long wait followed by an error stating rdoc doesn't know what to  
>> do with some random file nested deep inside one of the other apps  
>> on my system ( Flash, TextWrangler, Toast ???).
>>
>> ri, rdoc, ruby, are all installed in /usr/local/bin
>>
>> How do I run rdoc so that is doesn't choke on non ruby files?
>>
>> Many thanks for any help.  I'm sure I'm just missing something  
>> simple.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jean-Charles
>
> You need to run rdoc in the directory with the ruby files. For the  
> core / stdlib etc. this is usually done when installing. I don't  
> know how terrible it would be to go do it now on an installed ruby  
> but you can try. Just cd to the directory with the ruby libs.
>
> to do that find out the lib dir:
>
> ruby -e 'puts Config::CONFIG["libdir"]'
> You'll wnat to cd to the result of that command and then cd into  
> the directory 1.8
> then you can attempt to run rdoc. Good luck
>
>


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