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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:47:35 -0400
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ri doesn't seem to work
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0706122347g1b7d43d6k23fde1ba4015f60@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070612231052.GB18576@demeter.hydra>
References:  <20070612231052.GB18576@demeter.hydra>

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On 12/06/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@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.

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