From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-04-04T13:19:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ri is suddenly empty

Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

> apple ruby 1.8.6 with RDoc 2.4.3:
> 
> $ ri String#squeeze
> Updating ri class cache with 4563 classes...
> --------------------------------------------------------- String#squeeze
>       str.squeeze([other_str]*)    => new_str
> 
>       From Ruby 1.8
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Builds a set of characters from the other_str parameter(s) using
>       [...]
> 
> I can't fix this bug without your help.  You'll have to do some  
> investigation to find out what the problem is so I can reproduce and
> fix it.

Well:

Big-iMac-Attack:~ mattneub$ ri --list-doc-dirs
/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/builder-2.1.2/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/columnize-0.2/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/fastri-0.3.1.1/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/hpricot-0.6.164/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/linecache-0.43/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rake-0.8.3/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rdoc-2.2.1/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rubygems-1.3.1/ri
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/rubytree-0.5.2/ri

So it isn't looking in any unusual places, and it isn't find two
complete sets of ri data. My guess is that you're going to tell me to
rebuild my ri data *again*. But every time I've done this, i.e. trying
to use "modern rdoc" against ruby 1.8.6 source, it's been a disaster.
That's why my current ri data is built with the rdoc that ships with the
1.8.6 source. I've asked for explicit instructions that work, but have
never gotten any. m.

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