From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-05-08T00:15:47+09:00
Subject: Re: No documentation for File's methods?

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:
> We can do the following...
>
>   File.open('somefile.txt')
>
>   File.foreach('somefile')
>
> ...and I'm trying to see the documentation for these class methods.
>
> So I execute "ri File#open" and "ri File#foreach" and I get nothing.
>
> I installed fast-ri and I execute "qri File#foreach" and, again, get
> nothing.
>
> Interestingly, when I do "qri File#open" I get the documentation for
> "Kernel#open". However, File#open isn't kernel#open because the latter
> can open a subprocess (as in "cmd = open('|date')"). So I know that "qri
> File#open" too doesn't give me the documentation for File#open.
>
> So my question is:
>
> How do I get documentaiton for the methods of class File?

perhaps you need to rebuild the index

fastri-server -b

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