From: Dave Howell <groups@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T09:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: RI documentation for RubyGems


On Apr 18, 2006, at 13:55, Phil Hagelberg wrote:

> Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> writes:
>
>> Which directory is the correct one to do it in?
>
> On my system (Ubuntu) it's /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
>
> I don't know that it would be consistent across platforms.
>

Doesn't that depend on the question? If Wes wants documentation for 
Gems that he has installed, on my system, they're in (installation 
root)/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/(individual gems)

However, RubyGems couldn't install itself as a Gem, so it's in 
(installation root)/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems

On Mac OSX, (installation root) has defaulted to /usr/local, although I 
installed Ruby 1.8.4 in /Library/Ruby instead.

To make ri documentation for RubyGems itself, you'd go to the latter 
directory, then run rdoc. You'll have to figure out if you want to use 
-r or -R. I got tired of playing guessing games with ri, so I generate 
all my RDoc files as HTML now.