Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:02:46 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ri doesn't seem to work Message-ID: <20070613080246.GA20321@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0706130006u62b3bf46if83092574cfaed48@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070612231052.GB18576@demeter.hydra> <d7195cff0706122347g1b7d43d6k23fde1ba4015f60@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0706130006u62b3bf46if83092574cfaed48@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:06:08AM -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 13/06/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 12/06/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> 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. Interesting. Any idea why this isn't more obvious? I guess my mistake was in not trying "ri -c". I'm also not terribly clear on how I'd have guessed at: /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2 . . . without any easily discoverable guidance. Thanks much! It's working now. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
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