Ri not work in Ruby Installer for Windows

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I just installed ruby181-13.exe from rubyforge.net . It works great
with one exception, I couldn't get ri to work :frowning:
when I do ri Hash all I get is File not found.

I use Windows Me if thats matter.

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Zakaria wrote:

I just installed ruby181-13.exe from rubyforge.net . It works great
with one exception, I couldn't get ri to work :frowning:
when I do ri Hash all I get is File not found.

There have been problems getting the ri data files packaged with the installer.

See:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/index.rb/2004/Apr/23#Ruby1.8.1.RiDataFiles

which explain s how to get these files.

James

3

Well, I follow the instruction but still doesn't work.
So I renamed things back to the original, rdoc work just fine.

Here some excerpt.

路路路

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:54:02PM +0900, James Britt wrote:

Zakaria wrote:
>I just installed ruby181-13.exe from rubyforge.net . It works great
>with one exception, I couldn't get ri to work :frowning:
>when I do ri Hash all I get is File not found.

There have been problems getting the ri data files packaged with the
installer.

See:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/index.rb/2004/Apr/23#Ruby1.8.1.RiDataFiles

which explain s how to get these files.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\ruby\bin>ri Hash
File not found

C:\ruby\bin>ri blah
Nothing known about blah

C:\ruby\bin>dir /b|more

erb
erb.bat
irb
irb.bat
libexpat.dll
libexpatw.dll
msvcr71.dll
msvcrt-ruby18.dll
proxyserver.rb
ri
rdoc.bat
ri.bat
ruby.exe
rubyw.exe
sqlsh.rb
testrb
testrb.bat
msvcrt.dll
tcl83.dll
tclpip83.dll
tclsh83.exe
tk83.dll
wish83.exe
glut32.dll
glut32.lib
rdoc

C:\ruby\bin>type ri.bat
@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\ri" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

C:\ruby\bin>type rdoc.bat
@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\rdoc" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
-------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm using ruby181-13.exe on Windows Me.
Any other fix?

James

Wassallam,

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4

I finally able to track down the problem.
It seem when ri try to find a pager, ruby halt on
system("more < #{pager}").

This small patch will take care the problem, but still no pager

路路路

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:51:38AM +0900, Zakaria wrote:

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:54:02PM +0900, James Britt wrote:
> Zakaria wrote:
> >I just installed ruby181-13.exe from rubyforge.net . It works great
> >with one exception, I couldn't get ri to work :frowning:
> >when I do ri Hash all I get is File not found.

> There have been problems getting the ri data files packaged with the
> installer.
  
> See:
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/index.rb/2004/Apr/23#Ruby1.8.1.RiDataFiles

> which explain s how to get these files.

Well, I follow the instruction but still doesn't work.
So I renamed things back to the original, rdoc work just fine.

Here some excerpt.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\ruby\bin>ri Hash
File not found

C:\ruby\bin>ri blah
Nothing known about blah

C:\ruby\bin>type ri.bat
@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\ri" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

C:\ruby\bin>type rdoc.bat
@echo off
"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\rdoc" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
-------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm using ruby181-13.exe on Windows Me.
Any other fix?

-------------------------------------------------------------------
--- ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb.orig 2004-03-25 01:17:42.000000000 +0700
+++ ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_display.rb 2004-06-15 19:11:52.000000000 +0700
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
       STDOUT.reopen(@save_stdout)
       @save_stdout = nil
       paged = false
- for pager in [ ENV['PAGER'], "less", "more <", 'pager' ].compact.uniq
+ for pager in [ ENV['PAGER'], 'less', 'more', 'pager' ].compact.uniq
         if system("#{pager} #{path}")
           paged = true
           break
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Any fix, Dave? :slight_smile:

> James

Wassallam,

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