On Mar 23, 10:55 pm, "braver" <delivera... / gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been installing some gems, as well as non-gem tarballs, into my
> darwinports (now macports) ruby install on Darwin.  Then, when I do
> ri, I can't see the docs.  Poking around /opt/local/lib/ruby shows
> that gems' docs are generated next to them.  How's one supposed to
> look at them all -- by using -d to ri and figuring out the path all
> the time?


Found this by Dave:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/113707

-- that's 2004.  What's the status now, and specifically, why does gem
install create ri docs next to gems?  I'd like all ri docs to be
centrally accessible -- by a single ri command without options.

What should one ensure in ri setup (config files?  env variable with -
d paths?) to be able to access all site-ruby and gem-installed ri
docs?  And/or, what needs to be preset before the gem/local installs
-- so the ri docs, and rdoc html, all go to a central location?

And -- what happens if I have a gem, but also a site-local install?

Cheers,
Alexy