Ri in irb

ruby-talk
1

Hello all,

From p.191 of the pickaxe2 book, I put the following into my irb.rc file.

def ri(*names)
system(%{ri #{names.map {|name| name.to_s}.join(" ")}})
end

However, when I open an irb session and type, say,

ri Proc

I do not get the documentation I'm seeking, just a return =>false.

"ri Proc" works fine for me from a command line. Can anyone suggest what
might be wrong?

Thanks

Brian
ruby 1.8.2, Windows XP

2

On windows it needs to be ri.bat, just like you should use irb.bat

Jason

ยทยทยท

On 4/27/05, Brian Buckley <briankbuckley@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

From p.191 of the pickaxe2 book, I put the following into my irb.rc file.

def ri(*names)
system(%{ri #{names.map {|name| name.to_s}.join(" ")}})
end

However, when I open an irb session and type, say,

ri Proc

I do not get the documentation I'm seeking, just a return =>false.

"ri Proc" works fine for me from a command line. Can anyone suggest what
might be wrong?

Thanks

Brian
ruby 1.8.2, Windows XP

3

That's it! Thank you.

Brian