Cannot ri on windows 8

Ruby
1

Hi all,

I try to do some ri on windows 8. Here are results:

ruby 2.0.0p451 (2014-02-24) [x64-mingw32]

C:\Users\alex>ri

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ri GC
Nothing known about .ri GC

ri GC.start
Nothing known about ri GC

C:\Users\alex>ri start
Nothing known about .start

C:\Users\alex>

I wonder why ri fails?

Thanks,

2

If you installed by RubyInstaller will not work. If you compiled Ruby
from scratch, and installed ri will work. The fact is that if you
installed by RubyInstaller you have a *.chm file with all the
documentation you need, search there.

3

Thanks. Under the doc folder, I have a *.chw and other documents.

4

Yes *.chw that is.