# Ruby in emacs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-emacs/74208>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 1, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-emacs/74208 "2006-11-01T22:11:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dimkaspb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@dimkaspb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dimkaspb)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-emacs/74208/1 "2006-11-01T22:11:42Z")

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Hi All,

Is there anyone using Ruby and Ri in emacs?  
I am very new to Ruby and Emacs in general and I am having an error on  
my windows xp system with Emacs 22.0.50.1 when I run M-x ri.

I get the following error: Wrong type argument: stringp, io-error.

I am using ri-emacs that i got from  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/ri-emacs/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ri-emacs/).

Did anyone else experience this problem or does anyone know how to fix  
it?

Thanks,  
Dmitry

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**Author:** ![dimkaspb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@dimkaspb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dimkaspb)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-emacs/74208/2 "2006-11-07T10:54:05Z")

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On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Dmitry Peskin wrote:

> it?  
> Don’t expect the author to be reading ruby-talk. You should file a bug.

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**Author:** ![dimkaspb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@dimkaspb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dimkaspb)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-in-emacs/74208/3 "2006-11-07T10:54:25Z")

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Dmitry Peskin írta:

> Did anyone else experience this problem or does anyone know how to fix  
> it?

I have the same problem with emacs 2.1