ruby_core_ri

Installs the ri for Ruby’s core docs for your current version, even if they didn’t come with your distro.

This utility is for those of us whose ruby distros are lacking in core RI. For example.

$ ri File Nothing known about File

$

now becomes

$ ri File

————————————————— Class: File < Object

FTOOLS.RB: EXTRA TOOLS FOR THE FILE CLASS

Author:        WATANABE, Hirofumi

Documentation: Zachary Landau

…

$

This is quite helpful for those of us who want to use ri for core classes. For me, at least, ri is quite useless without it.

Installation (takes a little while) ==

$ gem install ruby_core_ri –source=gemcutter.org $ install_ruby_core_ri # download core’s source, ri’s it locally for you

Known issues ==

You may need to uninstall the mislav-hanna gem first, if installed.