From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-07-09T05:26:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ri and rdoc....like perldoc?


On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:29 , Brian Candler wrote:

> Xavier Noria wrote:
>>> 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/.
> 
> And for installed gems, type
> 
>  gem server --daemon
> 
> then point your web browser at http://127.0.0.1:8808/

That's not strictly necessary. ri picks up gem rdoc too.

Do make sure you have the rdoc gem installed so you have the latest version of ri and rdoc.