From: r <johnsyntax@...>
Date: 2006-12-30T10:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie: where is File documented?

Phrogz wrote:
[...]
> What's (oddly) missing from those docs is that the File class inherits
> from the IO class (amonge others)
>   irb(main):001:0> File.ancestors
>   => [File, IO, File::Constants, Enumerable, Object, Kernel]
> ...so when you see File.open in code, you may be confused because there
> is no File.open class method documented. For those, of course, see the
> IO docs (which even mention their tight association with File):
>   http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html
>
> Or is there something else that you think is missing documentation?

yeah,  was looking for the read() method,  it's tucked away in IO.

thanks
-R