Manual pages for Ruby functions from command line

Question

Is there a way to get at the manuals of Ruby functions from the command line?

Like the ?func man pages in R.

Do you mean man pages? I have old ones posted here http://douglasallen.github.io/Ruby_core_ri_doc/ Genuine works from 'Matz' — Douglas G. Allen, May 24 '13 at 03:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '11 at 21:23

4

ri Array  
ri Array.sort  
ri Hash#each  
ri Math::sqrt

answered Mar 08 '11 at 21:23

Matchu

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 08 '11 at 23:40

3

I have the following shell script that I use because it does color formatting in the terminal:

wesbailey@feynman:~/insiderpages> cat `which rim`
ri -Tf ansi -w 150 $1
wesbailey@feynman:~/insiderpages> rim Array

...

edited Mar 08 '11 at 23:40

Aleksandr Levchuk

answered Mar 08 '11 at 23:01

Wes

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