From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2010-07-09T02:56:05+09:00
Subject: Re: ri and rdoc....like perldoc?

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Derek Smith <derekbellnersmith@yahoo.com> wrote:

> thats unfortunate, will this likely change in the future?

I don't know, everything is Open Source, if Perl could so does Ruby,
it all depends on the community. And Perl has no "documentation team",
mind you, everything happens in the -porters ML.

> so if I want to look up how to use a function, how do i do this using
> ruby?

In the command line you check it with ri. Online you check some of the
references listed in http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/.