From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-04-12T18:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Where can I find full documentation

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Vitaliy Yanchuk <fuksito@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning everyone,

Mahlzeit!

> Can you please advise, I am looking for a good reference to all ruby
> standart lib. As I can`t see what I need on rdoc.info or
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/
>
> For example, I want to see everithing about standart lib rbconfig, what
> keys are in RbConfig::CONFIG, what other modules instead of CONFIG are
> present in RbConfig, what methods and etc

First choice would be

$ ri RbConfig

You can also use IRB and do

$ irb19
irb(main):001:0> RbConfig.constants.sort
=> [:CONFIG, :DESTDIR, :MAKEFILE_CONFIG, :TOPDIR]
irb(main):002:0> RbConfig::CONFIG.keys.sort
=> ["ALLOCA", "AR", "ARCHFILE", "ARCH_FLAG", "AS", "ASFLAGS",
"BASERUBY", "BUILTIN_TRANSSRCS", "CAPITARGET", "CC", "CCDLFLAGS",
"CFLAGS", "CHDIR", "COMMON_HEADERS", "COMMON_LIBS", "COMMON_MACROS",
"COUTFLAG", "CP", "CPP", "CPPFLAGS", "CPPOUTFILE", "CXX", "CXXFLAGS",
"DEFS", "DESTDIR", "DLDFLAGS", "DLDLIBS", "DLEXT", "DLEXT2",
"DLLWRAP", "DOT", "DOXYGEN", "ECHO_C", "ECHO_N", "ECHO_T", "EGREP",
"ENABLE_SHARED", "EXECUTABLE_EXTS", "EXEEXT", "EXPORT_PREFIX",
"EXTOUT", "EXTSTATIC", "GCC", "GNU_LD", "GREP", "INSTALL",
"INSTALLDOC", "INSTALL_DATA", "INSTALL_PROGRAM", "INSTALL_SCRIPT",
"LDFLAGS", "LDSHARED", "LDSHAREDXX", "LIBEXT", "LIBPATHENV",
"LIBPATHFLAG", "LIBRUBY", "LIBRUBYARG", "LIBRUBYARG_SHARED",
"LIBRUBYARG_STATIC", "LIBRUBY_A", "LIBRUBY_ALIASES",
"LIBRUBY_DLDFLAGS", "LIBRUBY_LDSHARED", "LIBRUBY_SO", "LIBS",
"LINK_SO", "LN_S", "MAINLIBS", "MAJOR", "MAKEDIRS", "MAKEFILES",
"MANTYPE", "MINOR", "MKDIR_P", "NM", "NROFF", "OBJCOPY", "OBJDUMP",
"OBJEXT", "OUTFLAG", "PACKAGE", "PACKAGE_BUGREPORT", "PACKAGE_NAME",
"PACKAGE_STRING", "PACKAGE_TARNAME", "PACKAGE_URL", "PACKAGE_VERSION",
"PATCHLEVEL", "PATH_SEPARATOR", "PREP", "RANLIB", "RDOCTARGET",
"RI_BASE_NAME", "RM", "RMALL", "RMDIRS", "RPATHFLAG",
"RUBYW_BASE_NAME", "RUBYW_INSTALL_NAME", "RUBY_BASE_NAME",
"RUBY_INSTALL_NAME", "RUBY_PROGRAM_VERSION", "RUBY_RELEASE_DATE",
"RUBY_SO_NAME", "SET_MAKE", "SHELL", "SOLIBS", "STATIC", "STRIP",
"TEENY", "TEST_RUNNABLE", "THREAD_MODEL", "TRY_LINK",
"UNIVERSAL_ARCHNAMES", "UNIVERSAL_INTS", "WINDRES", "arch", "archdir",
"bindir", "build", "build_alias", "build_cpu", "build_os",
"build_vendor", "cflags", "configure_args", "cppflags", "cxxflags",
"datadir", "datarootdir", "debugflags", "docdir", "dvidir",
"exec_prefix", "host", "host_alias", "host_cpu", "host_os",
"host_vendor", "htmldir", "includedir", "infodir", "libdir",
"libexecdir", "localedir", "localstatedir", "mandir", "oldincludedir",
"optflags", "pdfdir", "prefix", "program_transform_name", "psdir",
"ridir", "ruby_install_name", "ruby_version", "rubyhdrdir",
"rubylibdir", "rubylibprefix", "rubyw_install_name", "sbindir",
"setup", "sharedstatedir", "sitearch", "sitearchdir", "sitedir",
"sitehdrdir", "sitelibdir", "sysconfdir", "target", "target_alias",
"target_cpu", "target_os", "target_vendor", "topdir", "try_header",
"vendorarchdir", "vendordir", "vendorhdrdir", "vendorlibdir",
"warnflags"]

Kind regards

robert

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