From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-07-29T11:04:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to debug 'ri' ?

On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Harold Hausman wrote:

> I'm seeing this all of a sudden:
> C:\>ri Dir
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:99:in `concat': can't
> convert nil into Array (TypeError)
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:99:in  
> `merge_in'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_reader.rb:56:in  
> `get_class'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_reader.rb:52:in  
> `get_class'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:70:in
> `report_class_stuff'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:106:in  
> `get_info_for'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:135:in  
> `process_args'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_driver.rb:134:in  
> `process_args'
>        from c:/ruby/bin/ri.bat:55
>
> :(, it crashes fxri also if I type 'Dir' into the search box.
>
> Kind thanks in advance for any insight,

This is fixed in 1.8.5p1

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