# Ri path?

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ri-path/13217>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [24 August 2004 09:05 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ri-path/13217 "2004-08-24T09:05:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Gundlach3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Patrick\_Gundlach3](https://rubytalk.org/u/Patrick_Gundlach3)\
**Post date:** [24 August 2004 09:05 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ri-path/13217/1 "2004-08-24T09:05:41Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Mail\_Archive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@Dave\_Mail\_Archive](https://rubytalk.org/u/Dave_Mail_Archive)\
**Post date:** [24 August 2004 13:36 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ri-path/13217/2 "2004-08-24T13:36:33Z")

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> Dear ruby users,
> 
> Q: how do I tell ri to look in a different path then ~/.rdoc ?

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> pg$ ri --help
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> 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

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> On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:05, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Gundlach3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Patrick\_Gundlach3](https://rubytalk.org/u/Patrick_Gundlach3)\
**Post date:** [24 August 2004 17:05 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ri-path/13217/3 "2004-08-24T17:05:40Z")

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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](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

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Mail\_Archive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@Dave\_Mail\_Archive](https://rubytalk.org/u/Dave_Mail_Archive)\
**Post date:** [24 August 2004 17:17 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ri-path/13217/4 "2004-08-24T17:17:07Z")

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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

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> On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:05, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
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> > 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](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ri.html) but  
> > this is only a description of your pickaxe book.