Re: Ubuntu vs Ruby

Tim Hoolihan wrote:
I recently installed Dapper on my laptop, and was able to get ruby and
gems on, but ri and rdoc aren't available. Any ideas?

Sure they are. The problem may be that you don't have 'universe' sources for apt...

Package: ri
Priority: optional
Section: universe/interpreters
Installed-Size: 44
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Architecture: all
Source: ruby-defaults
Version: 1.8.2-1
Depends: ri1.8
Filename: pool/universe/r/ruby-defaults/ri_1.8.2-1_all.deb
Size: 3762
MD5sum: 458a36bc590f9ccb92bf33d43889d289
Description: Ruby Interactive reference (ri)
ri is a command line tool that displays descriptions of built-in Ruby
methods, classes, and modules. For methods, it shows you the calling
sequence and a description. For classes and modules, it shows a synopsis
along with a list of the methods the class or module implements.
.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
Ruby version (currently 1.8.x).

Package: rdoc
Priority: optional
Section: universe/doc
Installed-Size: 44
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Architecture: all
Source: ruby-defaults
Version: 1.8.2-1
Depends: rdoc1.8
Filename: pool/universe/r/ruby-defaults/rdoc_1.8.2-1_all.deb
Size: 3852
MD5sum: 1d55f0295ce6a1d4f88cf774dc07f5ab
Description: Generate documentation from ruby source files
RDoc - Documentation from Ruby Source Files
* Generates structured HTML and XML documentation from Ruby source and C
extensions.
* Automatically extracts class, module, method, and attribute definitions.
These can be annonated using inline comments.
* Analyzes method visibility.
* Handles aliasing.
* Uses non-intrusive and implicit markup in the comments. Readers
of the original source needn't know that it is marked up at all.
.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
Ruby version (currently 1.8.x).

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