From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-11T02:34:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby documentation discovery

On May 9, 2006, at 7:23 PM, John Conrad wrote:

> On 5/9/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>>
>> The next release of Ruby and Rubygems will build ri for installed  
>> gems.
>
> That will certainly help. But I am more concerned about having ri  
> built for
> all of those classes that are included with the ruby distribution, but
> nevertheless must be require'ed before use in programs, such as the
> 'open-uri' library. Do you know if there are future plans to have  
> these
> classes also built for ri?

ri is rather twisty inside, so I haven't figured out how to make "you  
need to require 'x'" work well.

There are many methods in both the core and standard library that  
aren't RDoc'd yet.  RDocing them isn't hard, it just needs people  
with both the time and the will to do it and submit patches to ruby- 
core.

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