From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-04-23T10:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: how to get ri/rdoc working for [user-installed libraries]

[> = "Dave"]
>
>> P.S. We still don't know what approach to take to get ri data
>> installed when you install a gem :)
>
> 1. Presumably the gems stuff stored somewhere the list of all installed
> gems. Thus you know where to find gem documentation.
>
> 2. Write a wrapper "rig" which invokes 'ri' with the appropriate -d
> option if you're getting the documentation for a gem.
>
>        rig --gem rexml --version 3.4  <args>
>
>    =>   ri -d /usr/local/gems/rexml/3.4/ri/..    <args>
>
> 3. Bask in the glory
>
> 4. If, after a while, this is clearly the way to go, I'll fold it all
> into ri/rdoc.

Very good idea and approach, I think.  I expect we can distribute 'rig'
with rubygems in about a month's time if the other developers agree.

# I think "a while" will prove to be quite a long time, and rightly so.

Thanks,
Gavin