From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-05-08T02:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: No documentation for File's methods?

2009/5/7 Jörg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Usenet@googlemail.com>:
> Albert Schlef 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.
>
> Wrong class: they are defined in IO, File just inherits them.

True, but fri/qri finds inherited methods:
$ qri File.open
------------------------------------------------------------ Kernel#open
     open(path [, mode [, perm]] )                => io or nil
     open(path [, mode [, perm]] ) {|io| block }  => obj
------------------------------------------------------------------------
...

$ qri File.foreach
------------------------------------------------------------ IO::foreach
     IO.foreach(name, sep_string=$/) {|line| block }   => nil
------------------------------------------------------------------------
...

I suspect the OP has a corrupted fast_ri index which needs to be rebuilt.

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