ri doesn't seem to work

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 13/06/07, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/07, Chad Perrin <perrin at 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.

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