From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-01-02T10:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Started w Ruby on MacOSX -- ri/RDoc error


On Dec 31, 2009, at 16:05 , M. Norton wrote:

> When I run ri to browse a class documentation, I get the following
> error:
> 
> galactica:~ remillard$ ri GC
> /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/1.9.1/rdoc/ri/driver.rb:384:in `initialize':
> Permission denied - /Users/remillard/.ri1.9/cache/.doc_dirs
> (Errno::EACCES)

Did you install the docs?

> 503 % port variants ruby19
> ruby19 has the variants:
>    c_api_docs: Generate documentation for Ruby C API
>    mactk: Build using Mac OS X Tk Framework
>      * conflicts with tk
>    nosuffix: Don't add the 1.9 program suffix to the executables. Note: that
>              makes the port conflict with ruby (1.8), rb-rubygems, and rb-rake
>              ports.
>    tk: Build using MacPorts Tk
>      * conflicts with mactk
>    universal: Build for multiple architectures
>