From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T13:26:13+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get ri/rdoc working for 1.8.1 on Windows?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:03:36PM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> A lot of this seems somewhat muddy to me as well.

In my case, the thing I was missing was that the Windows installer doesn't
include the Ruby source and as a result running rdoc won't have the desired
effect. D'oh!

> Here's what I know:
> 
> 1) Our process for building the ruby installer for windows *does* run rdoc
> to create the ri database. Unfortunately, it turns out those files didn't
> get copied into the installer. I zipped up these files so you can download
> them here:
> 
>    http://curthibbs.us/share.zip
> 
> Unzip this into your ruby install dir (you should then have a "share"
> subdirectory in your ruby install dir).
 
Nice.

> 2) rdoc.bat in the bin directory has 4 bad paths in them (all near the top
> of the file). You don't need to delete his batch file, just change the paths
> to your ruby install dir ("c:\ruby" by default).
> 
> 3) "rdoc" and "ri" in the bin directory are missing their ".rb"
> extensions -- simply rename them.
 
Okay. 2) and 3) I found, fixed and reported earlier on this list, as did
others.  Next time I'll use the RubyForge bugreporting system.

> When I do these three things, I can run rdoc and ri without any problems.
> Let me know if this works for you.

Will do tomorrow at work. Thanks Curt!

> Curt

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