Dear ruby users,
Q: how do I tell ri to look in a different path then ~/.rdoc ?
I create documentation via
rdoc -r -o /tmp/rdoc
and I'd like to acces it with ri, but I can't find out how to tell ri
that it shouldn't look in ~/.rdoc.
pg$ ri --help
alpha 0.1
the following arguments are accepted by ri:
-f (format), -T, -w (width)
but no -p path or whatever.
Patrick
Dear ruby users,
Q: how do I tell ri to look in a different path then ~/.rdoc ?
....
pg$ ri --help
alpha 0.1
That's a very, very old ri, and one that doesn't work with rdoc (as far as I remember). You need the ri out of a more recent Ruby distribution. That accepts a --doc-dir parameter, and honors the RI environment variable, which may be used to set defaults for arbitrary parameters.
Cheers
Dave
On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:05, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Dave,
thanks for your answer, but I am not sure where to get ri. Do I need
to download a current distribution? I have looked at raa, that leads
me to http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ri.html but
this is only a description of your pickaxe book.
I'll try a current distribution next.
Patrick
The raa entry should be removed (to be homnest, I'd forgotten it was there). Just get a recent Ruby distribution (1.8.2) and you should have ri all bundled up.
Cheers
Dave
On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:05, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
thanks for your answer, but I am not sure where to get ri. Do I need
to download a current distribution? I have looked at raa, that leads
me to http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ri.html but
this is only a description of your pickaxe book.