From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 07:06:15 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 53DB516A469 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:06:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BD013C484 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so106516mue for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:06:13 -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=Fc4h5sHMq5oSTmxPOSDi5sYcie9NRpQHS9e7RFNlghkQyxPelHMPjMyOX06Mmuf2GxEZ05bM1SCGOp9Wdwkpi1V0kz0c+SRUm/mYsG9NPPAhJEX6PsTX4hsuIxftfTgA5LBXp6ohuOshSFYU8uEczSmGqcAXd5hdMIH9A4GuLBg= 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=WQLe4VWvgH15+aLF+xCTWPF/FU1nC4ctzAI/awI2YNtC7hKf4HhlkqpSFW2Fgo6kSN4yEbqwayyERFQ9rZjgJfVr8TeYyRRBj8TDNzIbaDXrPkJIwF8b1xouoTKAPp81rKyY3KH2DBobpDzwX5xJuOWAn0d8facS9u6nynpa+A8= Received: by 10.82.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr449973bub.1181718373243; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.12 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:06:08 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: 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 07:06:15 -0000 On 13/06/07, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > 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. > Hello, self. Also, hello, Chad! % tar jxvf /ports/distfiles/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2 % sudo rdoc --ri -R -U ruby-1.8.6/ seems to be producing output. -- --