From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <tomasz.wegrzanowski@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T15:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Extremely Noobish Documentation Question

On 11/26/06, Paco Paco <mepaco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, I like the language but the documentation I
> have seen appears to be lacking compared to the Java API.  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.

The problem you're trying to solve seems to be the same
I tried to solve with magic/help - documentation is there,
but it's difficult to find the right one.

With magic/help you can do:
irb> help 'File.open'
or even:
irb> help { File.open }
magic/help then uses reflection, Ruby debugging hooks,
and other tricks, so if what you're looking for is there,
magic/help is going to find it for you ;-)

You can find more about magic/help at
http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2006/11/magichelp-for-ruby.html

Some improvements from magic/help have been incorporated into
recent versions of fastri, so fastri often works when the standard ri wouldn't.

-- 
Tomasz Wegrzanowski [ http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/ ]