From: Olivier <o.renaud@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T07:58:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Extremely Noobish Documentation Question

Le dimanche 26 novembre 2006 22:53, Paco Paco a écrit :
> ...
> but when I refer to the official documentation
> (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/) the 'open' method is not listed for the
> File class.
> ...

You did everything well : ruby-doc.org is the place to find the api, and you 
should have found exactly what you were looking for (eg. the File.open class 
method), in normal time...

But for some reasons, it happens that the generated doc gets bloated by 
classes that should not be there, in the core api. Maybe a mistake from 
someone, maybe a technical problem, perhaps someone in the ML knows what 
happens ?
In any case, this is annoying : in your case, the original File class api was 
replaced by another one, which is useless to you.

You can use ri instead, but it's not as simple as ruby-doc. And I don't know 
another place to find this api. Another solution is to generate the api 
yourself with rdoc.