Ruby and ri(1) ruby information

[Colin Law]

On 19 December 2013 21:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> kevin at treat:~$ apt-cache policy ruby
> ruby:
>   Installed: 4.9
>   Candidate: 4.9
>   Version table:
>  *** 4.9 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> kevin at treat:~$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]
> kevin at treat:~$ which ruby
> /usr/bin/ruby
> kevin at treat:~$ which ri
> /usr/bin/ri
> kevin at treat:~$ ri -v
> ri 3.9.4
> kevin at treat:~$

Kevin, you know better than to top post :)
That looks ok, so what do you see for
ri String

Colin

>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17 December 2013 05:49, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I recently would up with a book on Ruby and got curious about it.
>>> I discovered I have Ruby installed.  This was a fresh install of
>>> xubuntu 13.04, so I assume it came with the distro.
>>>
>>> Following the book (The Ruby Programming Language, O'Reilly) in the
>>> first few pages it talks about things that come with.  Including the
>>> ri command, and it gives examples.  None of them work -- they all say
>>> "Nothing known about x"
>>>
>>> Is there something I have done wrong?  Is there something I can do to
>>> put it right?  Or is this time to file a bug?
>>
>> What do you get for
>> apt-cache policy ruby
>>
>> and
>> ruby -v
>>
>> and
>> which ruby
>>
>> Colin
>>
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