From: Derek Smith Date: 2010-07-09T02:40:23+09:00 Subject: Re: ri and rdoc....like perldoc? Xavier Noria wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Derek Smith > 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. thats unfortunate, will this likely change in the future? so if I want to look up how to use a function, how do i do this using ruby? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.