From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-02-18T02:07:42+09:00
Subject: Re: lookup up documentation for inherited methods

Nick Brown wrote:
> I find it frustrating when using "ri" to look up documentation on a
> class, only to find the method I'm curious about is not listed.
> 
> As an example: String objects have many more methods than are explained
> in the documentation for String (example: String.grep). When you run
> "ri" on String.grep, you get "Nothing known about String.grep". This is
> apparently because the grep method was inherited from another class.
> 
> Is there any way to have ri automatically check the documentation of
> parent classes if no documentation is found for a method of a particular
> object? Or is there a better way to access Ruby's documentation than "ri
> Class.method"? I don't want to have to do detective work to look up a
> simple method...

I usually find rdoc (as available at railsapi.com or ruby-doc.org) to be 
more usable than ri.

Best,
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