From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-07-01T23:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Given a class, what is the 'require' line?

Alle domenica 1 luglio 2007, Swaroop C H ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> If there's a class StringScanner, I run 'ri StringScanner' and read
> the documentation on how to use it, but nowhere it mentions the
> 'require' line needed, how do we usually find it out? I had to google
> to find out that `require 'strscan'` is the line needed...
>
> When I asked about this on IRC, they said run ` egrep -r
> 'StringScanner' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8`, but I was really hoping there's a
> builtin way of doing it.
>
> Thanks,
> Swaroop

You can look at the online documentation (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/) and 
at the standard library reference (http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/).

I hope this helps

Stefano