ri - what does it know?

[Mark Volkmann]

It's unclear to me what I can expect ri to know about. Does this
differ depending on whether I used the one-click installer or built
from source? Should ri know about every built-in class/module? Should
ri know about anything in the standard library? When I install
something new, do the installers typically add documentation that is
accessible to ri?

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R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.

 

[James Britt]

On 23 Aug 2005, at 17:56, James Britt wrote:
...


I think if the documentation mentions where non-core methods come from
that'd be enough. There are a few non-core methods listed in ri
(Time#iso8601 comes from time.rb). Maybe just adding "require 'foo'"
to the synopsis.

Personally, I'd rather see some documentation that confuses origin over
no docs.

The issue is not user confusion, but rdoc/ri obliterating the proper ri
yml files with some new file generated when processing a library that
just happens to include something like

class Array
def foo
# ...
end
end



James