From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-01-01T00:56:45+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc: how to generate rdoc & ri documentation of standard library?

Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> To get something more meaningful, start in the Ruby source tree (not 
> the installed library) and issue the command
> 
>        rdoc --ri *.c lib/*.rb
> 
> That will document (in ri form) the built-in functions and all the 
> direct standard library classes. It'll take a minute or two, but when 
> it's done, you'll be able to say
> 
>     ri  Array
>     ri CGI
>     ri Tempfile::open

Ok, thanks. Where do I have to put the ri data to make it available to
all users? I tried "rdoc -o -o /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system ...", but
rdoc still wrote the data to /root/.ri/.

Maybe it would make sense to add a ri rule to the ruby makefile?

Andreas