From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2010-07-08T06:46:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ri and rdoc....like perldoc?

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Derek Smith
<derekbellnersmith@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Will anyone kindly help?  I want to get my ruby docs fully functional,
> meaning I can view any type of help on methods, keywords, etc.
> As in Perl I can type perldoc perlop or perldoc -f chomp.  The latter
> give me a whole page dedicated to perl operators and the former gives me
> one page on what is chomp and how to use it.

Unfortunately documentation is not one of Ruby strengths, there's
nothing as comprehensive as Perl builtin documentation (though there
are few languages that can compare with Perl documentation). Generally
speaking, libraries are not as well-documented as Perl modules either.

If anyone is surprised by the previous paragraph just type

    perldoc perl

in a shell.

If you want to learn about the Ruby language you normally get a book,
as reference I personally use Flanagan & Matsumoto. There are some
free tutorials online, there's also an old version of the Pickaxe.