I recently follow the excellent tutorial at the HiveLogic site on
installing Ruby on OS 10.4. Dan Benjamin
ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
My Problem: is with ri and rdoc:
When I first tried running ri, I got an error message saying ri /
rdoc were not installed and to contact the distributor of the binary
used to install ruby or if ruby had been manually installed, to run
make again with directives to install rdoc. I did the latter. Now
when I run ri, I get this error:
Before using ri, you need to generate documentation
using ‘rdoc’ with the --ri option
I’ve tried running rdoc with any and all options. The result is a
long wait followed by an error stating rdoc doesn’t know what to do
with some random file nested deep inside one of the other apps on my
system ( Flash, TextWrangler, Toast ???).
ri, rdoc, ruby, are all installed in /usr/local/bin
How do I run rdoc so that is doesn’t choke on non ruby files?
Many thanks for any help. I’m sure I’m just missing something simple.
Best,
Jean-Charles
On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Jean-Charles Carelli wrote:
latter. Now when I run ri, I get this error:
ri, rdoc, ruby, are all installed in /usr/local/bin
How do I run rdoc so that is doesn’t choke on non ruby files?
Many thanks for any help. I’m sure I’m just missing something simple.
Best,
Jean-Charles
You need to run rdoc in the directory with the ruby files. For the
core / stdlib etc. this is usually done when installing. I don’t know
how terrible it would be to go do it now on an installed ruby but you
can try. Just cd to the directory with the ruby libs.
to do that find out the lib dir:
ruby -e ‘puts Config::CONFIG[“libdir”]’
You’ll wnat to cd to the result of that command and then cd into the
directory 1.8
then you can attempt to run rdoc. Good luck
Thanks Logan, it worked perfectly.
Who would have thought being in the right directory would help ? LOL
One thing: when I used the command you suggested below, I got an error:
pwrBook: ~: jnchrls-> ruby -e ‘puts Config::CONFIG[“libdir”]’
-e:1: uninitialized constant Config (NameError)
I found the 1.8 dir manually instead. Is the error a typo or
something I should worry about?
Thanks again for the help.
J-C
On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Logan C. wrote:
You need to run rdoc in the directory with the ruby files. For the
core / stdlib etc. this is usually done when installing. I don’t know
how terrible it would be to go do it now on an installed ruby but you
can try. Just cd to the directory with the ruby libs.
to do that find out the lib dir:
ruby -e ‘puts Config::CONFIG[“libdir”]’
You’ll wnat to cd to the result of that command and then cd into the
directory 1.8
then you can attempt to run rdoc. Good luck
On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Ryan D. wrote:
On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Jean-Charles Carelli wrote:
I recently follow the excellent tutorial at the HiveLogic site
on installing Ruby on OS 10.4. Dan Benjamin
2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
It isn’t excellent. It is missing an important step. After “sudo
make install” for the ruby phase, do a “sudo make install-doc”.
Or you can do install-all, to handle both at once.
James Edward G. II
On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Jean-Charles Carelli wrote:
I recently follow the excellent tutorial at the HiveLogic site on
installing Ruby on OS 10.4. Dan Benjamin
2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
It isn’t excellent. It is missing an important step. After “sudo make
install” for the ruby phase, do a “sudo make install-doc”.
I just emailed the author asking for an update.
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