From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T16:25:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18942] Re: notes from a Ruby newbie

> Is there a standard equivalent of perldoc for Ruby? I'm used to having a 
> standard command to get module documentation; there seems to be no standard 
> way to find module documentation in Ruby. Yes, I've seen rdtool, but it 
> doesn't seem to be integrated with anything. And 3rd-party modules don't 
> install their documentation in a standard place, since there isn't one.

There is ri

	http://www.rubycentral.com/downloads/ri.html

It would be good if documentation for all 3rd-party modules could be
available through ri.

> There doesn't seem to be a standard way to install 3rd-party modules in Ruby 
> that works as smoothly as CPAN.pm.

No, and this is a big drawback. I do believe something like CPAN will
evolve in the future (so many people want it).

// Niklas