From: Olivier Renaud <o.renaud@...>
Date: 2007-03-24T01:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Does ruby have a similar functions to the Python dir and help functions?

Le vendredi 23 mars 2007 14:54, Austin Ziegler a �crit�:
> Ruby can tell you the methods: obj.methods (there's also
> #public_methods, #instance_methods, #private_methods, etc.). Ruby can
> tell you the instance variables (#instance_variables).
>
> Ruby can't tell you the documentation; there's no docstring like there
> is in Python. There are some enhancements to irb available that give
> an ri command from within irb.
>
> -austin

Actually, irb can give you documentation. For example :

irb(main):001:0> help Array

It works like ri.

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Olivier Renaud