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5 ri \- Ruby Information at your fingertips
8 ri [options] [names...]
11 \fIri\fP displaies information on Ruby classes, modules, and methods.
12 You can give the names of classes or methods to see their documentation.
13 Partial names may be given: if the names match more than
14 one entity, a list will be shown, otherwise details on
15 that entity will be displayed.
17 Nested classes and modules can be specified using the normal
18 Name::Name notation, and instance methods can be distinguished
19 from class methods using "." (or "#") instead of "::".
29 Note that shell quoting may be required for method names
30 containing punctuation:
40 Display the names of classes and modules we know about.
44 \-\-doc\-dir, \-d dirname
45 A directory to search for documentation. If not specified, we search the
46 standard rdoc/ri directories.
51 Format to use when displaying output: ansi, bs, html, plain, simple. Use
52 'bs' (backspace) with most pager programs. To use ANSI, either also use
53 the \-T option, or tell your pager to allow control characters. (for
54 example using the \-R option to less.)
59 List all the names known to RDoc, one per line.
64 Send output directly to stdout.
69 Set the width of the output.
74 Display the version of ri.
81 Options may also be passed in the 'RI' environment variable