From: Derek Smith <derekbellnersmith@...>
Date: 2010-07-09T03:26:17+09:00
Subject: Re: ri and rdoc....like perldoc?

Xavier Noria wrote:
> 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/.

ok thank you!  I prefer Ruby, it neater and more quaint!

peace.
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