Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I downloaded the 1.8.4 tarball long after it was considered the stable
> release, AFAIK. If there was only one release, then I got it. The links to the
> 1.8.4 docs should lead one to docs on 1.8.4, yes?

I guess if those were supposed to be the 1.8.4 docs, then yeah. But
they say right in the page you linked to, under the second heading;
"What You'll Find Here":

"Because the source code comments go straight into Ruby's CVS, the only
way to get up-to-date documentation is to use the latest Ruby code as a
source. There are two important side effects here:

    * the documentation may be ahead of Ruby 1.8.0, which many users
will have, and
    * the documentation is certainly out of step with Ruby 1.6.x.

The ruby_1_8 branch of the Ruby source code is used to produce the
documentation. So you will see the latest that Ruby 1.8.x has to offer,
not the experimental 1.9." ( http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ )

And what's the latest 1.8.x?

According to http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ , it is 1.8.5.

If you want the documentation for your particular version, why not use
the built in ri command (like python's pydoc), or the help() method
from irb (like python help())? Or just run rdoc on the source yourself?
Or use http://stdlib-doc.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html ?

Regards,
Jordan