From: Daniel Bye <ruby@...>
Date: 2010-07-22T22:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: documentation from inside irb

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:08:23PM +0900, Eugen Ciur wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> is there a way to call ri documentation from irb ?
> Something like:
>=20
> shell>irb
> irb(main):001:0> help inspect
> NameError: undefined method `execute' for module `IRB::ExtendCommand::Hel=
p'
>         from (eval):4:in `instance_method'
>         from (eval):4:in `help'
>         from (irb):1
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1016

The wirble gem allows you to use ri from within irb sessions. It adds
various other fancy bits as well, which may or may not be interesting.

Dan

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