From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-12-31T10:25:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Latest 'ri' with PickAxe content updated for 1.8 ?? (was Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file)


On Dec 30, 2003, at 17:56, Harry Ohlsen wrote:

> Dave Thomas wrote:
>
>> As of today, all the built-in methods apart from those in Process are 
>> integrated into the Ruby source tree. If you download the latest CVS, 
>> install it, and then in the main source directory issue the command
>>     rdoc --ri --all *.c
>
> When I try that (on Windows 2000), rdoc seems to happily run through 
> all the source code, but then when it gets to the ri generation stage, 
> it dies with:
>
>  Generating RI...
>  d:/ruby-1.8.1/lib/ruby/1.9/yaml.rb:17:in `require': No such file to 
> load -- yaml/parser (LoadError)
>        from d:/ruby-1.8.1/lib/ruby/1.9/yaml.rb:17
>        from d:/ruby-1.8.1/lib/ruby/1.9/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:1:in 
> `require'
>

That looks like a problem with yaml/syck.  _why_??

> Cheers

Dave