From: badboy <badboy@...>
Date: 2009-01-14T03:37:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Irb documentation queries?

Benjamin J. Racine schrieb:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am coming from python and loving ruby (the language), but trying to figure out some of the tools/capabilities.
> 
> Would anyone be so kind as to tell me whether irb has a way of seeing documentation strings in the source code (as in ipython)?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Ben Racine
> 
type
   help name
for the documentation or use
   ri names
on command-line

for example:
   $ ri 'Array::[]'
or
   irb> help 'Array::[]'

or install fastri:
   http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fastri
it's faster ;)