Ri seems to be giving results for Rails. Something is not right.
Can anyone help me get useful results from ri. I have an otherwise clean and working up-to-date installation of Ruby (1.9.3) and Rails (3.2.3).
For example if do ri Range I get this.
Range < Object
(from gem activesupport-3.2.3)
Constants:
RANGE_FORMATS
[not documented]
Instance methods:
include_with_range?
overlaps?
step_with_blockless
to_default_s
to_formatted_s
to_s
@Casper pointed me to another SO answer which gave me the information I needed to understand what was happening with ri. 1. ri is not installed automatically since it adds so much size to the install; instead .chm style help files are installed. But these seem to be the same as the help available on line via RubyDocs. 2. I think rails may have installed some ri docs, so that when I use ri I do get results for certain queries like the one I listed in my example above.