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Aleksandr Levchuk
Aleksandr Levchuk

Reputation: 3881

Manual pages for Ruby functions from command line

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

Like the ?func man pages in R.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1060

Answers (2)

Wes
Wes

Reputation: 6585

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

...

Upvotes: 3

Matchu
Matchu

Reputation: 85794

The ri tool might help here.

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

Upvotes: 4

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