# How to use fxri **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 23, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-fxri/179384 "2009-11-23T23:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taras)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-fxri/179384/1 "2009-11-23T23:20:51Z")
hello, total newbie here. i have gem installed fxirb, fxri, and fxruby. now i’d like to open hopefully a standalone fxri interactive window. how do i do this? cheers, taras ---
**Author:** ![taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taras)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-fxri/179384/2 "2009-11-24T16:56:41Z")
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Taras [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > total newbie here. i have gem installed fxirb, fxri, and fxruby. now > i’d like to open hopefully a standalone fxri interactive window. how > do i do this? On my computer, anyways, I just type “fxri” at the command line and up pops the FXRi window (with an embedded fxirb console). If you have a lot of gems installed, it may take awhile for FXRi to start up and be available, I think because it’s having to read in all of that documentation data and prepare it for display. ---
**Author:** ![taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taras)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-fxri/179384/3 "2009-11-24T21:06:37Z")
On Nov 24, 8:54 am, Lyle J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > of that documentation data and prepare it for display. > Thanks for the reply. When I type fxri, i get this error: c:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fxri-0.3.7/lib/RiManager.rb:2:in ‘require’: no suchfile to load – rdoc/ri/ri\_driver (LoadError) I checked the rdoc/ri/ directory, and I see that there is no ri\_driver.rb file, but there is a driver.rb file. I edited the fxri.bat, changing ri\_driver.rb to driver.rb didn’t work either. Wonder where I can get ri\_driver.rb file. Taras ---
**Author:** ![taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taras)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-fxri/179384/4 "2009-11-25T09:15:52Z")
On Nov 24, 1:46 pm, Lyle J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ah. I was trying with Ruby 1.8.7, not Ruby 1.9.1. So perhaps FXRi is > not compatible with the version of RDoc that ships with Ruby 1.9.1; > you may want to file a bug report with the FXRi developer to see if it > can be fixed. Thanks for sharing. T ---
**Author:** ![taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@taras](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/taras)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-use-fxri/179384/5 "2009-11-24T21:47:00Z")
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, kublai [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Thanks for the reply. When I type fxri, i get this error: > > c:/Ruby19/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fxri-0.3.7/lib/RiManager.rb:2:in > ‘require’: no suchfile to load – rdoc/ri/ri\_driver (LoadError) > > I checked the rdoc/ri/ directory, and I see that there is no > ri\_driver.rb file, but there is a driver.rb file. I edited the > fxri.bat, changing ri\_driver.rb to driver.rb didn’t work either. Ah. I was trying with Ruby 1.8.7, not Ruby 1.9.1. So perhaps FXRi is not compatible with the version of RDoc that ships with Ruby 1.9.1; you may want to file a bug report with the FXRi developer to see if it can be fixed.