From: "Curt (Work) Hibbs" <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T14:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: ri broken? (newbie, hopelessly confused)

If you are using Instant Rails you should use fxri which is a
graphical version ri combined with an irb (interactive ruby) session
-- much better that plain old ri.

In the Instant Rails menus, choose "Help >> fxri""

Curt

On 6/24/07, Anna Haynes <ncfocus2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
> My ri is broken too, and I *need* it since without it I do not know WTF
> I am doing, and I don't know how to fix it.
>
> from the previous posts in thread on this:
> > earlier installations (well, 1.8.2 at least) put the ri data files in one place ("site"), while the current installation has them in another ("system").
> > I believe the correct place is "system".  I deleted the duplicates from "site".
> Warren Seltzer replied:
> > Thanx guys.  That fixed it.  I nuked the site directory and left the
> > system directory and
> > both 'ri' and 'fxri' began working properly immediately.
>
> and Anna wonders -
> OK, so where is the site directory ? ( I see a ruby_site and a scite and
> a Site - is it any of these?)
>
> my capital-S Site is
> InstantRails\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\doc\rubyforge-0.4.2\ri\Site
> but it only contains cdesc-Site.yaml - does this mean that my "broken
> ri" is an entirely different problem from Warren's?
>
> ri --version
> gives 1.0.1 if that helps any.
>
> and is there a forum specific to "ruby newbie" questions, where it'd
> make sense to ask this stuff?   I hate to clog up the "ruby people who
> know what they're doing" forum with basic questions, but it would help
> SOOOOOO much to be able to ask a quick Q and get an answer, rather than
> spending 1/2 hr of my time (and too much of my sanity) digging to find
> each answer to each newbie question.
>
> thanks
> Anna
> p.s. behavior: when I type "ri String" in a dos window *nothing* happens
> until I hit ctrl-c at which pt I get a flurry of "gee we got
> interrupted" msgs - starting with:
>  [...]InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_cache.rb:57 in
> 'load_from': Interrupt
>
> ?
>
>
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