From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-31T12:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Latest 'ri' with PickAxe content updated for 1.8 ?? (was Re: Extracting multiple lines from a file)

On Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 4:58:29 AM, Dave wrote:


> On Dec 30, 2003, at 11:41, Alfio Astanti wrote:

>> I'm sorry to back up to a rather old thread, but I'm not able to find
>> the latest ri, the one with the PickAxe content, updated for 1.8
> ...
>> Where should I look for?

> It's in the latest Ruby CVS (from ruby-lang).

> 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

> You'll get them installed and available via 'ri'.

> It's still a work in progress, but it's coming along... :)

Just curious, will Ruby one day be distributed with the 'ri' data
included, as per the above command?

And is there a way to make 'ri' list the classes that it knows about?

Gavin