From: Warren Seltzer <warrens@...>
Date: 2006-05-30T22:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: ri broken?

Thanx guys.  That fixed it.  I nuked the site directory and left the system directory and
both 'ri' and 'fxri' began working properly immediately.

Warren Seltzer


-----Original Message-----
From: James Britt [mailto:james_b@neurogami.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:27 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: ri broken?


Warren Seltzer wrote:
> I haven't been able to get ri or fxri to work right since I installed ruby 1.8.4 on my
> winxp laptop:
>  
...
> ri never finds anything.  And when I click on a method name in fxri it just pastes the
> entry into the irb window.
>  
> What have I done wrong?
>  

Nothing, probably.  Did you use the "1-click" Windows installer package 
from RubyForge.org?  And install over an existing, earlier version?

I had the same problem, and it seems that earlier installations (well, 
1.8.2 at least) put the ri data files in one place ("site"), while the 
current installation has them in another ("system").

I believe the correct place is "system".  I deleted the duplicates from 
"site".



-- 
James Britt

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion 
of knowledge."
  - D. Boorstin