From: Dave Howell <groups.2009a@...>
Date: 2010-07-22T15:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: File class documentation


On Jul 21, 2010, at 23:03 , Eric Christopherson wrote:
> 
> Finally, even though the 1.8.7 doc at
> http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.7/classes/File.html seems to describe the
> actual class, when I run ri File in Mac OS X using 1.8.7 I also get
> the spiel about ftools.rb instead of File per se.

Wow. So do I. That's worse than useless. I never use the ri docs myself. At some point or other, probably under OSX 10.4, I built a copy of Ruby 1.8.7, and put the HTML version of the documentation where I could find it, and I always reference my local files for documentation. 

I cannot tell you any more which build of 1.8.7 I used, since I deleted the source directory some time after installing OSX 10.6. {shrug}