From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T17:04:51+09:00
Subject: Re: getting ri working on FreeBSD

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:12:27AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I seem to have run into a small problem on FreeBSD.  Hopefully, someone
> here has an answer.  (Note: cross-posted to freebsd-questions list)
> 
> No matter what I try to look up with ri (the Ruby information utility 
> that is used to look up stuff about classes, methods, et cetera, from the
> command line), it returns the same result:
> 
>   > ri Time.strftime
>   Nothing known about Time.strftime
> 
> I don't see anything in /usr/ports/lang that seems to relate to the 
> matter of ensuring ri has a database of information to share.  What
> am I missing?  How can I get ri working properly on FreeBSD?

I managed to get it working.  Apparently, I had to run:
  # tar jxvf /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2
  # rdoc --ri -R -U ruby-1.8.6/

. . . but there didn't appear to be any documentation for that in any
easily discoverable location.

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