From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-28T06:59:09+09:00
Subject: Re: It would be nice to be able to get a regexes string back...

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 4:39:02 AM, Eric wrote:

> Sam Roberts (sroberts@uniserve.com) wrote:

>> Quoteing drbrain@segment7.net, on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:28:31PM +0900:
>> > Sam Roberts (sroberts@uniserve.com) wrote:
>> > [23:27] drbrain@huphu:~/ruby/borges$ ri Regex.source
>> 
>> Thats funny! I did a ri Regex and looked at the methods that looked
>> promissing, but "source" means to do a run-time evaluation, in my
>> mind, I never even read the docs for this method...

> I have occasionally thought it would be nice to be able to see the doc
> for all methods for a given module/class, to avoid this type of random
> "that can't be it" hunting :)

You'll get it soonish.  Core classes are being RDoc'ed, so method
browsing is a viable option.

Gavin