From: barjunk <barjunk@...>
Date: 2007-06-19T07:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: getting ri working on FreeBSD

On Jun 13, 1:17 pm, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:08:30AM +0900, Ryan Zezeski wrote:
> >barjunkwrote:
> > > 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.
>
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [http://ccd.apotheon.org]
> Amazon.com interview candidate: "When C++ is your hammer, everything starts
> to look like your thumb."

Interestingly:

rdoc --ri -Y -U ruby-1.8.6

gives me:

invalid option -- U

For help on options, try 'rdoc --help'


I'm using RDoc V1.0.1 - 20041108, which i think comes with ruby 1.8.4.

Mike B.