On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Bil Kleb wrote:

> Ryan Davis wrote:
>> See class rdoc for help. Hint: ri Hoe
>
> Can someone please expand the "Hint"? -- I'm an
> impatient bonehead;
>
>  $ sudo gem update
>  Upgrading installed gems...
>  Attempting remote upgrade of hoe
>  Attempting remote installation of 'hoe'
>  Successfully installed hoe-1.0.4
>  Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.0.4...
>  Gems: [hoe] updated
>
>  $ ri Hoe
>  Nothing known about Hoe
>
>  $ ri hoe
>  Nothing known about hoe

It could be one of two things. Either you don't have the right  
version of ri/rdoc (1.8.5 has built in rubygem ri support) or rdoc/ri  
wasn't generated for some unknown reason.

% gem -v
0.9.0
% ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2006-03-04) [i686-darwin8.6.2]
% gem list hoe

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

hoe (1.0.4)
     Hoe is a way to write Rakefiles much easier and cleaner.
% ri Hoe | head -2
------------------------------------------------------------- Class: Hoe
      hoe - a tool to help rake

For the latter: sudo gem rdoc Hoe

If you aren't in a position to upgrade ruby/gems at this point in  
time, you're stuck with gem_server or going to http:// 
seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/