From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-07-30T08:22:44+09:00
Subject: Re: how regenerate ri data?


On Jul 29, 2008, at 15:04 , matt neuburg wrote:

> http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=25981:
>
>> * ri now walks the ancestors of a class looking for a method e.g. ri
>> File#read displays documentation for IO#read (may require  
>> regeneration of
>> ri data)
>
> Sounds cool! But:
>
> Big-iMac-Attack:~ mattneub$ rdoc --version
> rdoc 2.1.0
> Big-iMac-Attack:~ mattneub$ ri --version
> ri 2.1.0
> Big-iMac-Attack:~ mattneub$ ri File#read
> Nothing known about File#read
>
> So it sounds like I do need to regenerate the ri data. How? Thx - m.

% sudo make install-doc

in the source tarball (assumes you installed your own ruby--if you  
didn't, you deleted your rdoc data?)