From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 06:47:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4BF16A469 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:47:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44AA213C46E for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:47:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so359860uge for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:47:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ePrd194rV+VByL0I/umQ2ejDAjWDllBdX5cb5QXJ69MWEzehqumV5NO3MVGakyUaDFbl44J+lWRpr5iruJEanKyqFjbbd2kxDsVBiAZp3iGe0VBSgHvbFlAcOeWZbFk0cOcsyOaBxazanOj60K6kzrSYexskKgrj7KDogn1kMRA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=h9cAQPNpxP/sEpKU2jetCrNrddGTyXricX9gvKLKAZA73S/cbgrpoDM0dxnfFfa4KFvoS4W4XJl8JExEPzxB+xIqRpZ6b11gy5DriFHpGo9sB1MLx7pXMa1+qj4QUxt2EGHwUQ9oDLDS9u66rEMjCBQPGq8vQxPRDwXqcwPvkfk= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr403418buc.1181717255742; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.12 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:47:35 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <20070612231052.GB18576@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070612231052.GB18576@demeter.hydra> Subject: Re: ri doesn't seem to work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:47:39 -0000 On 12/06/07, Chad Perrin wrote: > No matter what I try to look up with ri (the Ruby information utility > that is used to look up stuff about classes, methods, et cetera, from the > command line), it returns the same result: > > > ri Time.strftime > Nothing known about Time.strftime > > I don't see anything in /usr/ports/lang that seems to relate to the > matter of ensuring ri has a database of information to share. What am I > missing? How can I get ri working properly on FreeBSD? On a hunch I typed "ri -h" . . . and another hunch made me type "ri -c" . . . . . . Well, crap. rdoc wants something I can't think to give it. Hopefully this will start making sense. -- --