From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T06:17:46+09:00
Subject: Re: getting ri working on FreeBSD

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:08:30AM +0900, Ryan Zezeski wrote:
> barjunk wrote:
> > On Jun 13, 12:04 am, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [http://ccd.apotheon.org]
> >> Leon Festinger: "A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him
> >> you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts and figures and he questions
> >> your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point."
> > 
> > 
> > Chad,
> > 
> > Where did you end up finding information about that...especially the -
> > U switch.
> > 
> > Mike B.
> 
> You can run rdoc -h for a list of the commands.
> 
> I think you may want to use -Y instead of -R because you are building 
> the documentation for the standard classes.

I wish I'd known that before I ran the command with -R.


> 
> # rdoc --ri -Y -U ruby-1.8.6
> 
> I've just started using FreeBSD (6.2) as of a week ago, but I would 
> think the port should do this automatically?  I looked at the 
> /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 and it seems to have an option to build/install 
> the documentation.  There is also /usr/ports/lang/ruby-doc-stdlib, but I 
> didn't try building it.

I don't recall that being an option at the time I installed Ruby.  C'est
la vie.

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